Services
Specialties & Expertise
Anxiety Disorders
Depression & mood disorders
OCD
PTSD & traumatic stress
Substance use disorders
Borderline Personality Disorder
Insomnia
Relationship issues
ADHD
Perinatal & postpartum mental health
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Eating disorders
Stress & life transitions
Suicidal ideation & self-harm
Individual & Group Psychotherapy
I provide individual and group therapy to adults and older adolescents. My therapy approach is active and collaborative. I encourage genuineness, vulnerability, and growth, recognizing each person as a unique individual.
The evidence-based treatment methods that I use include:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT teaches strategies to increase values-aligned activity engagement, face fears and anxieties that are negatively impacting your life, and overcome unhelpful thought patterns and core beliefs that exacerbate mental health problems. This psychotherapy approach includes exposure therapy, cognitive restructuring, and behavior activation among other techniques.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
ERP is a specialized type of CBT and the gold standard treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It involves strategically approaching feared stimuli and thoughts and disengaging from compulsive safety behaviors that follow exposure to a trigger. Goals of ERP include disrupting the obsession-compulsion cycle, building tolerance to uncertainty and discomfort, retraining the brain’s threat detection system, and introducing new ways of coping in place of compulsive behavior to return to meaningful daily functioning.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT teaches skills to manage difficult emotions and impulsive behaviors in an effort to live a more in-control and values-aligned lifestyle. Skills are organized in domains of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. I offer both DBT-informed treatment as well as comprehensive DBT, which includes weekly individual therapy sessions, weekly DBT Skills Group, and as-needed phone coaching.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT incorporates acceptance and mindfulness-based strategies to explore emotions, thought patterns, and experiences, with goals of increasing psychological flexibility and aligning with personal values.
Trauma-Focused Therapy: Prolonged Exposure (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
PE and CPT are recognized as front-line cognitive-behavioral interventions for the treatment of trauma. They teach skills to restructure trauma-related beliefs and cope with trauma-related memories, feelings, and situations in an effort to reduce symptoms and re-engage with meaningful life activities.
