Behavior & Learning
We look at what keeps repeating, what reinforces it, what you avoid, and what your life has taught you to do automatically.
Meet Your Therapist
The right therapist matters. Finding one should not be another problem you have to solve.
Therapy is personal. Credentials and training matter, but they do not tell you what it will feel like to sit across from someone, tell the truth, feel understood, and trust that the conversation is going somewhere useful.
That is why we do not expect you to read six biographies and guess who might be right for you. Tell us a little about what is happening, what you are looking for, and where you are located. We will help you think through which therapist at Simply Midori may be the strongest place to begin.
Your first clinical session is complimentary. There is no obligation to continue. Prefer a form? Start a Conversation .
The Match Matters
A good therapist is not automatically the right therapist for you.
Training, experience, and clinical judgment matter. But therapy also depends on what happens between two people.
You need enough trust to tell the truth and enough safety to talk about what you normally edit. You also need enough confidence in the therapist to let them question an explanation you may have carried for years.
Some people respond well to a therapist who is direct and highly active. Others need more room to think before they can see what is happening. Some people want structure. Others need someone who can stay with complexity without rushing toward a solution.
Fit is not about finding someone exactly like you. It is about finding a relationship in which meaningful work can happen. That is why we take the match seriously.
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Can I be honest here?
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Do I feel understood?
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Can this person challenge me without losing me?
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Do I trust where this work is going?
Our Approach
We do not fit people into a favorite therapy model.
People are rarely single-variable problems.
Anxiety may involve what you think, what your body has learned to anticipate, what you avoid, what happened before, what you expect from other people, and what you believe would happen if you stopped managing everything so carefully.
Relationship problems may involve communication, but they can also involve attachment, trust, resentment, fear, learned roles, identity, emotional regulation, or years of small injuries that have accumulated into something much larger.
The same is true of perfectionism, grief, trauma, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, achievement pressure, anger, betrayal, or simply feeling stuck.
We begin by trying to understand the pattern accurately. Then the method follows the person.
Emotion & Regulation
We pay attention to what happens when emotion rises, what becomes difficult to tolerate, and how you respond when your usual coping strategies stop working.
Relationships & Attachment
We consider what you have learned to expect from other people and how those expectations influence closeness, trust, conflict, protection, and disconnection.
Identity & Meaning
We explore the beliefs, stories, roles, values, and experiences that influence who you believe you have to be and how you understand what happens to you.
Our Therapists
Different therapists. A shared way of working.
Our therapists have different personalities, backgrounds, training, and clinical strengths. We do not expect them to work exactly alike.
What they share is a commitment to understanding the person before reaching for an intervention, looking beyond the most obvious explanation, and treating therapy as something built with the client rather than done to them.
“When I think about who belongs on our clinical team, I come back to a simple question: Would I trust this person with someone I love? I should be able to answer yes before asking a client to do the same.”
Joshua Doumani
MA, LCPC
Joshua's work sits at the intersection of psychology, relationships, identity, leadership, and human change. He tends to look across the different areas of a person's life to understand how emotional patterns, history, relationships, beliefs, behavior, and identity may be influencing one another.
You may connect well with Joshua if
The problem feels bigger than one symptom, several areas of your life seem connected, or you want a therapist who will actively help you understand the deeper pattern and challenge it.
Kelly McCauley
MA, LCPC
Kelly brings particular attention to behavior, relationships, conflict, and emotional dynamics. She is interested in what is happening between people as well as the emotional processes and learned responses that may be shaping what happens next.
You may connect well with Kelly if
Relationship patterns, conflict, emotional responses, or recurring interpersonal dynamics are central to what you want to understand.
Victoria O'Connor
AM, LCSW
Victoria brings a strongly relational perspective to the work, with particular attention to emotional processes, trust, and what happens between people. She looks closely at the way relationships affect what we feel, expect, protect, and communicate.
You may connect well with Victoria if
Trust, connection, relationship wounds, emotional safety, or the way you experience other people sits near the center of the work.
Michael Lang
MA, LCPC
Michael pays close attention to behavioral and relational patterns, including the responses that can quietly become automatic over time. His work helps make those patterns visible enough that clients can understand what keeps producing them and begin responding differently.
You may connect well with Michael if
You understand your pattern intellectually but continue finding yourself in the same reaction, communication loop, or behavior.
Tiffany Sanchez
MA, LPC
Tiffany brings particular attention to emotional and behavioral processes, especially the ways people respond under pressure, during change, and within important relationships. Her work considers both the visible reaction and what may be happening underneath it.
You may connect well with Tiffany if
Your reactions become harder to manage when life becomes stressful, relationships become emotionally charged, or circumstances begin changing quickly.
Joseph Rubin
MA, LCPC
Joseph pays close attention to the interpretations, assumptions, and relationship patterns that shape how people respond to their experiences. His work helps clients understand not only what they are doing, but the meaning their mind may be assigning to what is happening.
You may connect well with Joseph if
You want to understand why situations affect you the way they do, what assumptions may be operating underneath your responses, and how to develop another way of interpreting and responding.
Finding Your Therapist
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You do not need to make the decision before you contact us.
The matching process is intentionally simple. We want you to have enough information to begin without asking you to determine the entire course of therapy before the first conversation.
Tell us what you are looking for.
Email Stephanie with a few basics: whether you are looking for individual or couples therapy, where you are located, your general availability, and anything else that may help us understand what you are looking for. You do not need to send your entire story by email.
We think about the match.
We consider what you are seeking, the kind of work involved, therapist availability, location and licensing requirements, and which clinician may provide the strongest place to begin.
Meet your therapist.
Your first clinical session is complimentary. This is not a ten-minute sales call. It is an opportunity to have a real conversation, begin understanding what is happening, and experience how the therapist actually works with you.
Decide from experience.
You are not obligated to continue. If the relationship feels right, you can move forward together. If it does not, tell us. Sometimes the most useful next step is simply reconsidering the match.
Your First Session
You do not need to arrive with your life neatly organized.
You can be confused.
You can know that something is wrong without knowing exactly
what it is.
You can have twenty things you want to talk about and no idea
which one matters most.
You can even be unsure whether therapy is what you need.
Your therapist's job is not to wait for you to present a perfectly organized case. It is to listen carefully enough to begin making sense of what is happening with you.
The first session may explore what brought you in, when the problem began, where else it appears, what you have already tried, what tends to happen when you become distressed, and what would actually be different if the work were successful.
We are not trying to explain your entire life in one conversation. We are trying to find an intelligent place to begin.
If You Have Done Therapy Before
Understanding the pattern and changing the pattern are not always the same thing.
You may already know where some of your patterns came from. You may understand your attachment style, recognize your triggers, know why you overthink, see why you people-please, or be able to explain exactly what happens when you shut down.
That understanding matters.
Why does the pattern still take over when I already understand it?
Therapy may then move beyond explanation into emotional processing, new relational experiences, behavioral practice, regulation, identity work, or whatever else appears to be maintaining the pattern.
Insight is part of change. It is not always the end of it.
Not Sure Where You Fit?
Sometimes you need to heal. Sometimes you need to grow. Sometimes you need to think through what comes next.
Simply Midori is a psychology firm. We work with people in several different ways, and therapy is not automatically the right container for every problem.
Individual Therapy
For emotional, relational, behavioral, developmental, trauma-related, identity, and other clinically appropriate concerns.
Explore Individual Therapy →Couples Therapy
For recurring conflict, disconnection, betrayal, trust, intimacy, attachment patterns, accumulated hurt, or uncertainty about the relationship.
Explore Couples Therapy →Executive Coaching
For leadership behavior, judgment, communication, relationships, pressure, role, performance, and organizational impact.
Explore Executive Coaching →Personal Advisory
For consequential personal decisions, transitions, competing priorities, identity questions, and situations where therapy is not the primary need.
Explore Personal Advisory →Still not sure? Explore all Individual Work →
Faith & Therapy
An important part of your worldview does not have to stay outside the room.
For clients who want it, therapy can include serious engagement with faith, spirituality, values, meaning, religious experiences, or questions that do not fit neatly into a purely psychological vocabulary.
That does not mean every psychological problem receives a spiritual explanation.
It means we do not require you to separate parts of yourself that are meaningful to you in order to participate in therapy.
Faith integration is client-directed, never assumed.
Common Questions
A few things you may want to know before you begin.
Can I request a specific therapist?
Yes. If someone on our team already stands out to you, tell
Stephanie. You are not required to use our recommendation. The
matching process is there to help when you are unsure, not to
take the decision away from you.
What if my therapist does not feel like the right fit?
Tell us. Sometimes talking openly about what is not working
becomes useful therapeutic material in itself. Other times,
another therapist is simply a better fit. We would rather address
that directly than have you remain in a relationship that does
not feel productive.
Is the first session really complimentary?
Yes. Your first clinical session is complimentary, and there is
no obligation to continue afterward.
Do I need to know which type of therapy I need?
No. Start with what is happening. Part of our responsibility is
determining how to work with it rather than expecting you to
diagnose yourself or choose a treatment model from a list.
Can faith be incorporated into therapy?
Yes, when you want it to be. Faith integration is client-directed
rather than assumed.
Do you work with couples?
Yes. Simply Midori works with couples navigating recurring
conflict, disconnection, betrayal, trust, intimacy, attachment
patterns, accumulated hurt, and uncertainty about what happens
next.
Learn About Couples Therapy →
Learn About Couples Therapy →
Is therapy virtual?
Our therapists provide virtual care where the individual
clinician is legally authorized to practice. Stephanie can help
determine availability based on where you are located.
Simply Midori is a psychology firm.
Begin Here
You do not need to find the perfect therapist from a webpage.
Tell us enough to help us point you in the right direction. Stephanie will help you determine a place to begin and coordinate your first conversation.
Email opens directly to Stephanie Raine. You do not need to include sensitive clinical details. Your first clinical session is complimentary, with no obligation to continue.