Services
- Individual
About My Clients
I specialize in helping healthcare professionals and others in high stress jobs recover from work-related issues of overwhelm, burnout, compassion fatigue, and traumatization, and to re-find their sense of passion, purpose, and meaning. I am especially experienced in doing this work with those who are ADHDers or AuDHDers, with high anxiety and/or past trauma history, and occupational and social stress/trauma related to intersectionalities of gender, race, sexuality, class, and chronic illness.
My Background and Approach
I love to help my clients find new ways to think about and to take action around their problems, to make choices aligned with their values, and to feel more empowered, energetic, and emotionally available in all parts of their lives while also accessing more joy and self-acceptance. And though therapy does require hard work and honesty, it works best when there’s also a lot of warmth and humor, so I have a passion for providing those as well! My specialty treatment of healthcare professionals is informed by training and relevant research and theory, but also by 20 years of experience working in a range of healthcare settings, providing direct services to patients in specialty mental health and primary care clinics, supervising and teaching psychology externs, interns, and postdoctoral fellows, psychiatry residents, nurse practitioners, and social work interns, and working on a number of interdisciplinary clinical teams with physicians, nurses, and allied health practitioners.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
So many incredibly gifted professionals feel utterly depleted and demoralized, beset by shame and self-blame, because they’ve been led to believe that burnout is caused by a failure of self-care, that compassion fatigue is caused by a failure of empathy, that vicarious trauma is caused by a failure of personal professional boundaries. But work-related stress syndromes are much more complex than that, especially for those who are neurodivergent and those with intersectional identities underrepresented or undervalued in their fields. Because of this, I use a neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive integration of attachment-focused/relational therapy, EMDR, and CBT, with a strong emphasis on self-acceptance, self-compassion, and understanding systemic factors. And I am committed to providing care that is antiracist, intersectionally feminist, non-ableist, LGBTQ+ affirming, and polyamory-friendly.