Services & Specialties
Individual Therapy
I am invested in helping you reach your highest potential through creating and maintaining a positive relationship with yourself. I will teach you how to practice radical self-compassion, even in the face of perceived imperfections and mistakes. Together, we will identify and examine the deep patterns of relating and living that no longer serve you and find creative solutions for optimizing change. I am committed to empowering and guiding you toward healing any obstacles in the way of your best self. We will build upon your strengths and enhance your interpersonal effectiveness skills. Through a greater sense of self-compassion and improved ability to establish and maintain appropriate boundaries and speak your truth, you’ll feel stronger and more capable of living the life you want.
Couples Counseling
Romantic relationships can be complicated. In time, cycles of conflict can emerge. I am here to assist you in identifying your unique negative patterns of interacting that lead to disconnection. Together, we will resolve the trauma beneath such patterns to get your relationship unstuck and I will teach you new strategies to enhance intimacy and trust.
Reproductive Health and Infertility Counseling
Getting through the day while experiencing reproductive challenges and difficulty conceiving can be exhausting and filled with despair. If you’ve found yourself riding the infertility emotional roller coaster, I am here to help you through the ride and back to being grounded. I assist people in identifying and holding close to their strengths and finding peace while wrapping their minds around diagnosis, weighing treatment options, and making decisions about family building or child free living.
Reproductive health challenges impacting women such as endometriosis, PCOS, fibroids, and ovarian cysts can be physically painful, uncomfortable, and take a special emotional toll not well understood by partners, friends, and family. We will work toward improving your ability to cope with, shift, and overcome the difficulties inherent within such reproductive health challenges through strategies such as radical self-compassion, mindfulness, visualization, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I will assist you in identifying your needs and optimizing your ability to effectively communicate them to your medical treatment team and loved ones. We will repair and regenerate the image you have of your body.
Trauma Therapy
Trauma therapy recognizes the role of past trauma on present day symptoms and offers many highly effective strategies and interventions for healing. Trauma therapy can assist you in making sense of what happened, understanding your emotions, and getting unstuck from limiting patterns and beliefs so that you can feel empowered to realize and step into your dreams. I have over 15 years of extensive post graduate training in and experience providing trauma therapy including successfully assisting many of our country’s most trauma impacted combat Veterans in overcoming trauma legacies. Some of the leading, innovative, and well researched trauma therapy modalities I have advanced training and expertise in are as follows.
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) - I am certified in EMDR through EMDR International Association. EMDR is a well researched and effective trauma therapy. EMDR is a mind-body technique used to process disturbing memories that contribute to unexplained fears and self-defeating beliefs and behaviors. Studies have shown that participating in just a few sessions of EMDR often results in experiencing the benefits of therapy that once took years to make a difference.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) - I am trained through the founder of IFS, Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.’s, IFS Institute. IFS is an evidence-based therapy that identifies and addresses multiple inner parts, sub-personalities, or families within each person’s mental system. These inner parts often include wounded parts that hold painful emotions, including anger and shame, as well as parts that try to control and protect the person from the pain of the wounded parts. Parts are often in conflict with each other and with one’s core Self (a concept that describes the calm, confident, compassionate, whole person that is at the core of every individual). IFS assists people in healing their wounded parts and transforming dysfunctional dynamics among their parts and Self to restore mental balance and harmony.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) - CPT is a type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy found to be effective in treating trauma symptoms. I have specialized training in CPT in which I worked closely with an expert in the field. If you’ve experienced trauma, you may think differently about yourself and your environment, particularly in terms of safety (you might doubt your ability to keep yourself and others safe), trust (you question your judgement or the intentions of others), control (you don’t feel able to control your own life or influence those you care about), esteem (you see yourself as broken and others as evil), and intimacy (you feel unable to connect with or be understood and accepted by others). These thoughts lead to painful emotions and can prevent you from recovering. CPT assists you in developing skills to challenge these negative thoughts and reverse the impact they have on your life.
