Therapy with Taylor Isaacson
So you found your way here
I wish I could grant you perspective of a fly on the wall in my brain. Why? So you could see all the edits I've made to this website. Style changes, like font and color, or the words I've used to try and encapsulate what it is I do as a therapist (I have a point and it's related to therapy - I promise).
The process of making this website, weirdly, feels like a good metaphor for life. We shift, grow, and become new versions of ourselves all the time. Hopefully, with each version, we move closer to the essence of who we actually are (pssst that's what I want to help you with).​
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Right now, this meta-as-hell intro is the truest way I can introduce myself to you and convey some of my values about life, and by extension, about therapy. Bet you the intro will change one day. But for now, if you made your way through this and it resonates, we might be the same brand of weird. I’m so excited to see what we can create together. Let's dive in...
My Approach
I view therapy as an exploration. I'm the compassionate, goofy, and reverent witness who explores alongside you. I help you find the places to deepen into your experience of life and am trained in helping you navigate any challenging feelings that arise along the way.
​I’m not interested in giving you answers. Life rarely has simple answers anyway. Instead, I seek to help you find your own unique way of navigating the world: To bolster your skills with awareness and intention so you can more easily move through life's valleys and fully savor the peaks. Along the way, I aim to help you foster more self acceptance so that these skills become more accessible and you can actually reach for them.
​​I work well with people who are oriented around growth as a type of life path, those who want to shift their patterns at the root to make meaningful and lasting change. My goal in our work together is to help you develop your self-awareness and reclaim your agency and power, so you can make choices that align with the life you want and person you want to be.
Sounds tight. How do you do that?
How I work
Parts work
Often, we navigate our experiences automatically, based on what we’ve learned so far in life. Parts work explorations help you get in touch with your own inner wisdom underneath the layers of trauma, anxiety, and difficulty by building relationships with different aspects of your experience (and yourself).
Over time, this helps you get in touch with the truth of your whole self, so you can make more aligned and intentional choices; experience greater ease and less internal contention; and foster more self-acceptance.
Somatics
Your body is a straight-up beacon of wisdom, and you may not be practiced in listening to it.
Our psychological and physiological experiences are inextricably linked. Expanding mind-body awareness can help you notice the information that your body is trying to communicate with you (for real, it’s wild).
Through bringing awareness to physical sensations in the present moment, I help clients develop the skill of finding answers within their own experience instead of seeking outside themself.
Present moment awareness
Life is happening right now, as you’re reading this. What sounds do you hear? What do you see?
With consent, I help clients venture into the present moment through meditations and explorations. Together, we acknowledge and explore what you find with curiosity. My intention is to hold a solid container and support you regardless of what you may find.
Relational Therapy
Relationships can be hard. They can also be incredibly rewarding, soul-nourishing, and revolutionary.
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The ways you show up in therapy can give us hints about the way you show up in your other relationships because (you guessed it) therapy is also a relationship!
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I aim to create a space where you can practice the hard stuff - the things you find challenging about relating to others - so you can have more fulfilling connections, less loneliness, and more authenticity to self while in relationship with others.
What do those modalities work for?
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Anxiety
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Depression
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Boundaries
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Relationship issues
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Self-esteem and self worth
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People-pleasing tendencies
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Childhood trauma/CPTSD
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Identity exploration and development
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Codependency (moving toward interdependency)
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Self acceptance and self confidence
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Community development and activism
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Spirituality and existentialism
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Perfectionism and self criticism
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Abandonment wounding
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Intergenerational trauma
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Strengthening intuition
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Relational trauma
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Sex and sexuality
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Family conflict
Are you vibing, but you don’t see your topic listed here? I work with more than just these issues, which are the highlights. Hit me up and let’s talk about whether or not my experience and training fit your needs.
Services
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Individual adults
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Young adults
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Relationship therapy
(couples, friends, etc.)
I specialize
in work with
Queer and trans folks
Neurodivergent people
Mixed race people
Polyamorous folks
Young adults
Activists
Artists
About me
The reason I do this work is to help people connect back in with their authenticity.
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This world encourages us to disconnect from parts of ourselves. No baby is born perfectionist, transphobic, etc. The systems of this world teach us. They attempt, and sometimes succeed, in stripping us of deep and meaningful connection with ourselves. They attempt to divide us from each other.
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I believe a part of the medicine this world needs is for us to reclaim parts of ourselves we’ve been encouraged to abandon or see as "bad" (i.e. softness, anger, community mindedness, etc.). In doing so, we may show up more wholly for ourselves and, by extension, for others and the world.
While we're all just tiny beans on a rock floating in space, this is how I derive meaning from being here and it's the reason that the essence of this work feels spiritual to me.​
I’m neurodivergent, non-binary, queer, am living with dynamic disability, and was raised primarily by my Latina matriarchs. All of these things inform my perspective and coalesce into a non-linear yapper with excellent pattern recognition. I’ll share ideas, imagery, and connections I’m making based not only on what you’re saying, but how you’re saying it.
​I’m inspired by tall trees, kids and their wildness, the very early morning, being goofy with my dog, and that pain and straight up silliness can coexist. I feel most alive when dancing and when belly laughing or talking into the wee hours with my wild, beautiful friends.​
I have a Psychology B.A. from UC Berkeley and an Integral Counseling M.A. from the California Institute of Integral Studies (and life’s been the most thorough teacher, let's be real).