https://www.estelleraskintherapy.com/julien-clarke daily 0.75 2018-04-10 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5abd3fb6b40b9d201cb0e831/t/5acc2a6af950b7425253d0e3/1523221899901/ Julien Clarke https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5abd3fb6b40b9d201cb0e831/5aca85666d2a73d3a0f13d23/5aca858b88251b534852ad10/1523221899901/ Julien Clarke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd3fb6b40b9d201cb0e831/1523329632645-OFMW7Y47CIC1O8REMX42/IMG_2043.JPG Julien Clarke https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd3fb6b40b9d201cb0e831/1523329592330-LBNQZBG91UPP0HN9OS91/IMG_2043.JPG Julien Clarke https://www.estelleraskintherapy.com/charlotte-stowe daily 0.75 2018-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd3fb6b40b9d201cb0e831/1523223030737-A0MXDFGSOG5EVMEAY4GN/IMG_2043.JPG Charlotte Stowe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd3fb6b40b9d201cb0e831/1523223030737-A0MXDFGSOG5EVMEAY4GN/IMG_2043.JPG Charlotte Stowe https://www.estelleraskintherapy.com/sir-james-condi daily 0.75 2016-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d73dbac2ea51af9150258f/1456949737009-IQVTJ3PFH9TA1YDUOE8J/1.jpg Sir James Condi https://www.estelleraskintherapy.com/work daily 1.0 2013-08-30 https://www.estelleraskintherapy.com/welcome daily 0.75 2026-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd3fb6b40b9d201cb0e831/1525044056579-BTFS449DMT3HVPB1UDF9/IMG_4262.JPG About - I received a Masters in Narrative Therapy and Community work from the University of Melbourne, Australia, a Masters of Psychology from Phillips Graduate University, and a Bachelors in Art History from The Ohio State University. Prior to licensure, I spent years talking with elementary school children in the Los Angeles School district, with adults at the Las Encinas Psychiatric hospital in Pasadena, and in community mental health providing counseling to couples and families. With a background in fine and performing arts, and a previous career in the entertainment industry, I am sensitive to the intricacies, pressures, and politics of the art world, and the dilemmas that creative professionals are up against. I am passionate about addressing mental health as part and parcel of larger systems of harm, and make it a point to expose the pathologizing and dehumanizing discourses that are normalized in our every day language and culture. I value facilitating conversations that invite people to wrestle with taken for granted truths and examine the impacts that normative ideas around success/failure, sexuality, gender, relationships, beauty, and identity have on their lives. I am a clinical member of both the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and the California Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT). https://www.estelleraskintherapy.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2025-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5abd3fb6b40b9d201cb0e831/1525020911938-SXU4CAVFXSW8051KFAK0/IMG_2721.jpg Approach - PERSON CENTERED vs. PROBLEM CENTERED My position on mental health is first and foremost that people are not the problems that bring them to therapy. I work hard to contextualize individual concerns within the fabric of every day living by bringing the intersectionality of race, gender, class, sexual identity, body politics, and other societal discourses into the conversation in order to consider how they might be playing a role on a person’s well being. These frameworks stem from my study of narrative therapy, feminist theory, queer theory, and other poststucturalist lenses that help situate people away from a singular understanding of themselves and/or their diagnoses that can otherwise be shaming and cause a sense of powerlessness. As I get to know my clients, I listen for their values and dreams, which have more often than not been cast aside from consciousness by generalized labels and normative ways of evaluating and measuring the self. I find that there is a world of possibility that lives in people's histories and life experiences. My intention is to attend to multi-faceted conversations that allow people to tell their stories, thereby expanding the way they see themselves and clarifying both what they stand for and how they choose to navigate through the world. RELATIONAL/INTEGRATIVE/EMBODIED I hold the perspective that we are in relationship with all the aspects of our lives, and included in that paradigm is our relationship with both ourselves and the systems we are embedded in. In addition to my theoretical orientations, I utilize holistic and integrative modalities such as meditation, and somatic techniques including EFT to help people calm their nervous systems in order to be able to weigh their problems from a calm, and relaxed state of body and mind. I believe that unresolved experiences are held in the body's systems as minor or major traumas (including current and past ancestral and generational traumas caused by systemic oppressions), and that this demonstrates the body’s natural ability to protect itself from harm. 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