My style is earnest, flexible, and collaborative. Whether it's teaching you a practical coping strategy, helping you to connect to your feelings and thoughts, or making sense of something that seems confusing, my aim is to work alongside you, curiously exploring and offering new perspectives to your concerns.

Psychotherapy can be helpful in redefining how you relate to others and yourself, and in identifying and nurturing your needs.

You may be thinking, “I’ve thought long and hard about my life, know what my issues are, and have some practical tools to solve them. Can you provide me anything new?” Psychotherapy is more than a venue to talk about frameworks and mental models and exercises. Psychotherapy, first and foremost, is centered on the relationship between you and me. Just as you may glow when someone important to you offers a compliment, or feel a certain type of anger or aloneness when that person looks right through you, the conversations in psychotherapy have a way of evoking feelings, and inspiring new thoughts and action.

My treatment approach is integrative, person-centered, and evidence-based. It is grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). An ideal patient would also value an emotion-based and interpersonal approach to treatment; few factors consistently predict effective treatment outcomes like the strong bond between your therapist and you. (Review of this research).

My postgraduate training includes Cognitive Behavior Therapy (e.g., Exposure Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention) for panic, phobias, and obsessive compulsive disorder and Compassion Focused Therapy. I am also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)*, and offer this as an adjunctive treatment for traumatic stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. I have also completed years of doctoral level training, supervision, and coursework in psychodynamic psychotherapy (under Nancy McWilliams, PhD), a framework that allows me to more deeply appreciate the depths of my clients’ pain and patterns in how they relate to themselves and with others.

*Currently not accepting new EMDR clients.