MEET OUR TEAM
explore your past, understand your present, empower your future
YAEL SHERNE, LMFT
founder
Yael specializes in supporting women and couples around the life changing journey of becoming, and being, a parent. She has specialized training in perinatal mental health, couples therapy, and trauma. With nearly a decade of experience supporting clients, she brings lived experience and clinical expertise to her work.
Her clients describe her as compassionate and insightful. She leads with warmth and care, and brings humor into the therapy room. She prioritizes trust and safety with all her clients, and is not afraid to gently challenge when needed in order to help you achieve change and growth.
CHLOE GUHLSTORF, AMFT
Chloe supports individuals and couples navigate life’s challenges. She helps her clients build meaningful connections, and find balance and fulfillment in their lives. She brings clinical experience, and a past career as a labor and postpartum doula, to her work with expectant and new parents.
Her clients describe her as caring and detail-oriented. She aims to create a safe, nonjudgmental space where her client's can explore their emotions, gain clarity, and develop tools to thrive.
NIRVANA BRAVO, ACSW
Nirvana supports individuals and couples wanting to break cycles of trauma. Her work focuses on helping clients build peace within themselves and in their relationships through deepening insight, noticing patterns, and practicing new ways of being.
Her clients describe her as warm, authentic, and collaborative. She brings both depth and lightness into the room, creating space for humor, compassion, and honest reflection. Nirvana also has expertise in working with LGBTQ+ individuals and immigrant families, and provides therapy in both English and Spanish.
VANESSA SANCHEZ
Vanessa is our Care Coordinator & Administrative Assistant. She helps our practice run smoothly so clients feel guided at every step, and our therapists can focus on the work that truly matters — supporting you. Known for her warmth, reliability, and thoughtful follow-through, Vanessa is often the first reassuring voice clients hear.
With experience in caregiving, pharmacy, and teaching, she blends heart with precision, bringing calm structure to scheduling, onboarding, paperwork, and questions about billing or superbills.
OUR CLINICAL FOCUS
We can help you with…
• Infertility, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), Surrogacy
• Pregnancy Loss, Termination for Medical Reasons (TFMR)
• Relationship Difficulties, Couples Therapy
• Prenatal Depression and Anxiety
• Postpartum Depression, Anxiety, Intrusive Thoughts & OCD
• Childhood & Attachment Trauma
• Single Event Trauma
• Parenting Issues
• Co-parenting Issues
Our Guiding Principles
COMPASSION
Compassion allows you to approach this work with openness, not judgment or shame. When we unburden ourselves and lead with compassion, we can achieve deeper understanding and create space for healing and growth.
CURIOSITY
Reflection and curiosity are core to the therapy process and its effectiveness. When we are entrenched in critical narratives about ourselves, there is no space to believe in a different outcome. Curiosity opens up possibilities for a new way of looking at things.
CLARITY
We believe that our past influences our present - the way we think, act, and feel. By helping you uncover these connections, you can better understand your patterns, and make room for a new way of being. One that is more aligned with your true self.
CONNECTION
Humans are relational beings, we need connection to thrive. Therapy should be your safe relational home, a place to be vulnerable and true to your authentic self. This will foster deeper connection both inside and outside of the therapy room.
OUR APPROACH
Clients describe our therapists as empathetic & insightful, warm & direct.
Our work is relational, collaborative, and human. We believe the relationship between you and your therapist is the most critical factor in effective therapy. We show up as our authentic selves, bringing depth, insight, and humor.
Grounded in trauma-informed, psychodynamic, and attachment-based therapy, our work will explore how early experiences shape current patterns in thoughts, behaviors, and relationships, while offering practical tools you can use right away.
We’re fully committed to your growth, because we know the work is worth it and that real change is possible.
