Roxane is a Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker and is supervised by Dr. Thomas Lucking. She transitioned to a career in therapy after significant careers in both high tech and higher education, in which she holds a master’s degree, alongside dedicated volunteerism in crisis counseling, medical care for the unhoused community, and coaching youth sports.

Areas of Roxane’s specialities with adults, couples, groups, and teens are bulleted below. She practices neuroscience-informed therapy, integrating principles from the structure and function of the brain and nervous system into her practice to treat behavioral and mental health challenges. She believes deeply in holding her clients in safe therapeutic space that is hallmarked by nonjudgment and unconditional positive regard. Roxane embraces a strengths-based, client-centered, and person-in-environment approach to treatment.

On a personal note, Roxane originally hails from Appalachia and has experienced marriage, divorce, dating, raising and launching children from the nest, life-threatening illness, loved ones’ addictions, and grief and loss, and she draws from her education and training as well as from her life experience to offer empathy and connection with her clients along their therapeutic journeys.

Specialties:

• Anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicidality
• Anger management
• Body dysmorphic disorder
• Career coaching on topics such as boundary setting at work, how to get your voice heard, team-building art therapy exercises, mid-life career change, and ways to innovate your thinking
• Effective communication skill-building for individuals, couples, groups, and teams
• Gay-affimative therapy including gender-affirming surgery support
• Neurodivergence including Asperger’s, autism, and disorders of attention and executive functioning
• Neuroscience-informed therapy
• Relationship therapy including: couples/groups, dating, divorce, infidelity, parenting and co-parenting, polyamory/ethical nonmonogamy, and sex and sexuality, including BDSM/kink 
• Stress management 
• Substance abuse screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment
• Trauma and trauma-informed care, including the exploration of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and their impact on clients’ biological, psychological, and social health across their lifespan
• Wellness coaching

Clients: Adults, Teens, Couples

Modalities: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Expressive Arts Therapy (art, dance, music), Gay-Affirmative Therapy, Mindfulness, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Problem-Solving Therapy

Locations: Telehealth, Los Gatos, Fremont