Welcome, stay awhile.

Offering therapy services to California residents, with offices in Oakland and Lafayette.

Welcome to Thea Integrative Therapy, a space that will come to represent a safe container for self exploration, healing, and wellness. This is the major first step in your path to healing, and we are so happy your journey has led you here.

Here we welcome and embrace all people, and strive to amplify marginalized voices through emphasizing social justice, intersectional identities, awareness of privilege, and uplifting cultural values with humility.

We specialize in serving members of the LGBTQIA+ Community, those who identify as neurodivergent, relationship and gender nonconformists, members of the sex work, leather and kink communities, and those with complex trauma.

At Thea Integrative Therapy, we welcome you to bring all parts of yourself. Here, you can experience the relief that is shedding your various masks, and reacquaint with your Core Self on the road to embracing your most authentic expression. It is in this safe container that we can rewire the negative self perception, trauma responses, and societal expectations that have limited your pursuit of unadulterated joy to enable you to truly thrive.

Taking the first step in your healing journey can often feel like the most difficult hurdle to overcome. However, if your search has led you here, please take a moment to explore the site to see if we might be the best match for your path forward. If you’ve seen enough, schedule a free 20 minute consultation to discuss what brings you to therapy and your goals for treatment.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
— Brené Brown

Shining Light Within

In Greek mythology, Thea is the Goddess of sight and vision, and the daughter of the Goddess Gaia (Earth mother) and God Uranus (Sky father). Her first daughter is the Goddess Selene, the Goddess of the moon, followed by Helios, the sun God and Eos, the Goddess of dawn.

Thea is the Goddess of divine light, known for providing the gift of sight to humankind. It is believed that the beams of light from her eyes allowed others to see their destiny, and Thea is symbolically represented by her eyes.

Thea’s mythology is the inspiration for Thea Integrative Therapy. Here, we strive to enable your capacity for sight; to develop your skills of introspection, emotional awareness, and to shine light within the recesses of your mind.

It is our honor to sit with you in your time of darkness; to cast light into your shadows to enable introspection and resilience. We hold that the only way out of the darkness is by moving through it; within the safe container of therapy.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

―Thich Nhat Hanh

Get to Know Your Core Self Again

Do you feel disconnected from your purpose, passions, and identity? Do you struggle to be vulnerable and express your feelings? Perhaps your current ways of functioning are no longer serving you, and you’re tired of trying to survive and figure things out on your own. Perhaps your identity feels unclear and fragmented, and you would like to figure out how to develop your passions and purpose in life.

There are so many distractions in today’s society that can result in a deviation from your Core Self and path in life. Healing is the process of brushing away the layers of shame, egoism, trauma stories, rigidity, social training, and social masking to connect back to your core identity. When you reacquaint with your Core Self, you set your soul free to connect to your most genuine expression of self and can move forward with greater authenticity and genuineness in life.

When your Core Self is found again, you can learn to trust your intuitive inner voice, and redevelop a close connection to yourself. Life welcomes more room for playfulness, exploration, love, abundance, and joy when survival no longer usurps your emotional energy. Connecting to your authentic sense of self enables you to connect to your desires, passions, and path in life.

Healing, joy, and connection is possible. You do not deserve unhappiness, pain, or loneliness. The hardest part is the first step, if only you will come into the light.

Meet Celine of Thea Integrative Therapy

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. — Lao Tzu

Hi, I’m Celine, and I’m so happy your journey has led you here. Finding a therapist can be an overwhelming process, especially when you are experiencing difficulty in functioning “normally” (whatever that means).

My intention is to create a space that you can feel comfortable, connected, and held within — no matter what! I am a queer, gender fluid, and neurodivergent therapist passionate about creating space for divergent thinkers and those who no longer identify within the binary.

I am excited about connecting individuals with their purpose, and realigning them with their path in life to live their most authentic and joyful existence. Together, we can move you past surviving each day, to thriving in life.

I strive to create a nurturing container for clients to engage with their own self discovery, healing, and growth. I am especially passionate about exploring complex trauma through inner child healing, somatic resourcing, and connecting you to your emotional experience with gentle self compassion.

I lead with connection, genuineness, and a sense of playfulness in order to create a space that is conducive to self exploration and enables the positive rewiring of learned maladaptive behaviors and patterning.

I am eager to witness you in the messy trenches of self discovery and healing, as it is in these uncomfortable moments that growth occurs. Everything you need is already within you, and it is my honor to join you in those darkest moments and offer you a light.

To learn more about my background, practice philosophy, and specializations, please read about me here.