Eve Picower (she/her)

While I work with all genders, I have special expertise working with women around numerous "women's issues" such as relationship difficulties, pregnancy loss and infertility, pregnancy and post partum, parenting, sexual abuse and sexual assault, body image and disordered eating, and aging. I would be happy to work with you on any of these issues.

Anxiety is the feeling you have when you don't know what will happen in the future. I have successfully helped clients with anxieties, big and smaller, like worrying about what others think of you, or how to feel safe after a sexual assault, or what your life will look like after the death of a partner. We all feel anxious sometimes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a lot of uncertainty, and therefore, a lot of anxiety. I look forward to helping you.

I worked for several years at a sexual assault and sexual abuse treatment program where I provided long-term psychotherapy to adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and sexual assault. If you have experienced a trauma, you may see yourself, others, and the world differently, and it may be difficult to trust and feel safe again. If we work together, I would hope to help you understand how the trauma has affected you, and to move forward in your life in a way that feels safe and satisfying.

After I received my Masters degree, I completed a post-graduate training program in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. I believe that your past affects you present. If we can understand your past and how it helped to shape your views of yourself and others, relational patterns, and views of the world, you then have greater opportunities to question automatic assumptions, feel less "stuck," and make different choices to feel, perceive, and be in the world differently.

I integrate cognitive-behavioral theapy with many of my clients when I notice automatic negative thoughts and perceptions or when there is a repetative unwanted behavior. Together we would take notice of these patterns and develop strategies to challenge these thoughts or work toward small steps of changing unwanted behaviors. Beginning to "catch yourself" thinking/doing these things allows for opportunities to make a conscious choice to handle it differently.