Daishea Poole, LMFT #142484

Are anxiety, depression and stress keeping you from living your life to your fullest potential? Are you feeling stress weighing on you internally or causing you to feel exhausted and hopeless? I always say, your body will tell you – even if your mind won’t – that something has to change. Together we will explore ways to grow, further develop self-acceptance and unearth traumatic experiences and daily stressors that are hindering you from achieving this potential.

After creating a goal fitted to your needs, I will be there with you providing an unbiased listening ear and warm spirit as you reimagine the life you want for yourself. In this safe and accepting environment, we will uncover your way of living and not just existing.

Let’s Work Together To Promote Your Healing Process

My name is Daishea Poole, I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #142484). I earned my Master of Science in Counseling Psychology at California Baptist University and my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at San Francisco State University. 

I specialize in mood disorders such as anxiety and depression due to stress-related to relationship difficulties, existential crises, life transition issues, and/or identity issues. I have 5 years of experience working with children ages 3 – 17 providing behavioral therapy to address behavioral and educational concerns. Additionally, I have worked with individuals, couples, and families that are struggling with the transitions in their life or simply realizing that they want to do more than just survive. The question is are you ready to get off the sidelines and into the game of life?

Feeling Lost or Stuck in a Rut

Have you been feeling like life is happening around you but no matter how hard you try you can’t join in? Have you noticed changes in your behavior like sleep or eating habits, feeling hopeless or empty or perhaps just not knowing who you are anymore? Or maybe you’re struggling with seemingly uncontrollable thoughts and difficulty concentrating alongside the constant feeling of irritability or fatigue. Depression and anxiety affect many people whether it be a single event or a lifetime battle. What I have found is that when we allow ourselves to stop focusing all of our energy in fighting against these feelings and give ourselves the time to figure out why we are feeling this way – then we are able to unmask the monster who we often find is a part of ourselves we misunderstand. It’s like when you’re a kid and you think there are monsters under the bed; you can hide under the covers until morning, or you can turn on the lights and confront your fears – the power to do either lies within you.

Approach to Therapy

My therapeutic approach is existential-humanistic – I strive to provide my clients the opportunity to figure out their own truths and discover the meanings behind these truths. I offer an unbiased and caring listening ear as we process through the mental roadblocks keeping you from achieving self-fulfillment. During the process, I ask questions to get you to consider different perspectives and challenge you to search deep within yourself to find the answers you are looking for. Therapy is such an intimate journey in that you are afforded the safe space to confront parts of yourself and/or events from your past, and I respect the vulnerability embedded in this process and work to make sure my clients feel safe, seen, and heard.

At the end of this road, you will emerge from this experience with coping strategies to manage your feelings and thoughts, and responses to stressors as well as a new-found understanding of yourself – acknowledging both the things you enjoy and don’t always appreciate about your personhood. Learning to incorporate meditation, deep breathing, establishing a schedule and other mindfulness techniques will help you to continue the journey after my role is over. I want to help you learn to see yourself in away the frees you from feelings of hopelessness, worthlessness, doubt and inferiority. I want to help you discover yourself and the infinite possibilities that are awaiting you.

I provide individual therapy for 50 minutes/$150 per session and couples therapy for 50 minutes/$170 per session. Just imagine the places you will go. 

Please do not hesitate to contact me for a free 20-minute consultation. I look forward to connecting with you.