When life keeps moving and something in you has gone quiet.
Support for adults carrying heaviness, numbness, or a loss of color in a life that looks fine from the outside.
It does not always look like sadness.
The heaviness
Getting through the day takes everything, and there is little left over for the parts of life you used to enjoy.
The flatness
Nothing is exactly wrong. Nothing feels like much of anything either.
The high-functioning kind
You keep performing at work and showing up for people, then come home with nothing left.
The self-criticism
A voice that reads your tiredness as laziness and your struggle as proof of something wrong with you.
Depression is often a signal, not a defect.
Numbness can be what happens when feeling has been too much for too long. Low motivation can follow years of pushing past your own limits. Grief, loneliness, unlived creativity, and unspoken anger all have ways of settling into the body as heaviness.
Rather than rushing to make the feeling go away, we listen to what it has been protecting or carrying—while also attending to the practical: sleep, movement, connection, and the small daily footholds that make the days more livable.
Company for the part of you that has been alone with this.
We go at a pace that respects how much energy you have. Some sessions are about meaning and history; others are about getting through the week.
If medication, psychiatric care, or additional support would be useful, I will say so and help you think it through. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 for immediate support.
I'm Christine. I can help.
I'm an associate professional clinical counselor (APCC #20063) in Mill Valley, supervised by Laura Rose, LMFT #83808. I see clients in person in Mill Valley and virtually anywhere in California. Learn more about me here.
Share your contact info and I'll reach out. I offer free 15-minute consultations where we can talk about what you're looking for and I can answer any questions you have about how I work.
655 Redwood Highway, Suite 339
Mill Valley, CA 94941