Culture is part of the work
Your background, language, family, and history shape how you experience distress and healing. We treat that as central, not a footnote.
About the practice
Some threads knot quietly for years before anyone names them.
Untangled Threads Psychology was built to give those knots room, language, and care, without asking you to leave your culture or history at the door.
Why the name
A life is woven from many threads.
Family, culture, work, relationships, the body, the past: each is its own thread, and they rarely stay tidy. When several pull at once, the weave can feel impossible to follow.
Therapy here is not about cutting threads away. It is about finding where they cross, loosening the knots that hurt, and helping you see the pattern you have actually been weaving all along.
We work with individuals, couples, and families, with particular care for people from minority and marginalized communities who too often have to translate themselves before they can be understood.
What we hold to
Values that shape every session
Paced to consent
We move at a speed you set, especially with trauma. Nothing is rushed, and you stay in the driver’s seat the whole way.
Methods, held lightly
Evidence-based approaches give us a map. Staying attuned to the person in front of us tells us when to set the map down.
Access by design
Telehealth means care can reach you wherever you are in California or New York, around work, caregiving, and the rest of a full life.
The practical shape of care
- Format
- Telehealth by secure video, plus in-person sessions in Rochester, NY
- Who we see
- Individuals, couples, and families
- Where
- California & New York
- Approaches
- Attachment-based, motivational interviewing, CBT and third-wave (including ACT), and Somatic Experiencing
- Getting started
- A free consultation call, then we plan together