I’m a warm and caring therapist who often describes themselves as “lovingly direct”. Often, I will utilize aspects of our relationship to highlight barriers to change and provide a warm and directive approach to push you towards growth.
I enjoy being an active participant in the therapeutic process and utilizing our relationship together to help you towards your goals. Through our trust, I help my clients learn how to sit with emotions that may feel challenging and give clients reparative emotional experiences by tolerating their emotions within our relationship. I work with adolescents, adults, couples, and families.
Once we have a strong relationship, I draw from a variety of techniques to help you understand yourself and start to create change. As a strengths-based therapist, I help you to see what is already working well and figure out how to expand upon that.
As an integrative therapist, I commonly utilize interventions from mindfulness, motivational interviewing, dialectical behavioral therapy, the unified protocol, attachment theory, and cognitive behavioral therapy to help you understand the functional purpose of your emotions.
I use the approaches that match the client and the moment. I also enjoy working somatically and with different mind/body approaches to therapy. When appropriate, and usually with clients that I have been processing trauma with for some time, I enjoy utilizing EMDR to help clients reprocess memories.
As a trauma-responsive and trauma-informed therapist, I never move you past your zone of comfort without making sure you have the skills to feel safe doing so. I believe strongly in anti-diet and health at every size philosophies.
For me, it is important to work in the “gray-area” within therapy. I don’t believe black and white approaches work for my clients and that each of my clients may need their own unique treatment plan to lead them to their goals. It is also important to me that my clients feel like I’m their personal advocate.
In addition, I want my clients to feel that I’m constantly on their team and cheering them on. Also, because eating disorders as well as any mental health disorder tends to be multidisciplinary and multi-faceted, I strongly believe in working with a comprehensive treatment team, when needed and possible. I frequently work with a team of trusted professionals (dietitians, medical doctors, psychiatrists, as well as other professionals) to help my clients.
Specializations & Expertise:
Eating Disorders
Chronic Pain
Eating Disorders
Body Image Concerns
Chronic Pain and Chronic Illness
Bipolar Disorder
Neurodivergence
Depression
Anxiety and Phobias
Mood Disorders
Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
EMDR
Self-harm and Suicidality
Relationship Difficulties
Life Transitions
Attachment Concerns
Difficulties with Self-Esteem
Professional/Career Issues
College/Graduate School Issues
Grief, Loss, or Bereavement
