Services
- Individual
About My Clients
Many of my clients are students and professionals that are feeling lost in their anxious thinking and behavioral patterns and looking to feel more present in their daily lives. In my work with these individuals I am able to help them learn new ways to relate to their overwhelming and often intrusive thoughts, and to create new patterns of behavior that allow for a full, value connected life.
My Background and Approach
My approach is centered in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), an evidence based approach that helps you to understand the interconnection of your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in order to make effective change. I have completed the Behavioral Therapy Training Institute, an intensive training workshop that focuses on Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for the treatment of OCD. In implementing ERP, I can help you to gradually face the fears that have been keeping you “stuck” while you simultaneously refrain from the compulsions, avoidance and escape behaviors that make your world feel smaller. In learning to expose to your fears rather than avoiding them, you will loosen the hold that they have over you and engage your life in a more meaningful way.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that learning new ways to relate our anxiety is possible. I think that by learning more about our anxiety and why it functions the way it does, we are given more power to choose how to engage with it and to create the life we want for ourselves. I believe thaty trying to simply "stop" our anxious thinking won't work. I believe that with the right support we can stop trying to outrun anxiety and instead interact with it in new ways that no longer allow it to serve as a barrier to a full, connected life.