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About My Clients
Are you a young adult struggling with frequent worrying due to anxiety or stress? Maybe you’re experiencing intrusive thoughts, or engaging in body-focused “bad habits.” Perhaps you even identify as a perfectionist or people-pleaser. My goal is to help you reach yours. This may include facing your fears, no longer feeling victim to the "what-if's" that run rampant in your mind, and disengaging from rigid routines and behaviors.
My Background and Approach
I specialize in treating young adults with anxiety, panic, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, and body-focused repetitive behaviors including skin picking and hair pulling. I can also help you through depression, poor body image and self-esteem, relationship concerns, and life transitions. I primarily employ a humanistic and person-centered approach to therapy, meaning I want to get to know you and meet you where you're at. I employ supportive reflection and empathic listening, along with interactive feedback. I work from a Cognitive Behavioral (CBT) framework, specifically drawing on behavioral changes for depression, Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD and anxiety disorders, and Habit Reversal Training for body focused repetitive behaviors.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe people begin to heal the moment they are heard, and I am grateful for the opportunity to be on the receiving end of your story. I have first-hand experience with obsessive thinking, anxious thoughts, fearful avoidance, and skin-picking. I know how hard it is to struggle with these symptoms and feel they take control over your life. I believe clients are the experts of their own story, and having a supportive therapist to help guide them in identifying patterns of thinking or behaving keeping them feeling stuck can lead to meaningful change they wish to write into their next chapter. I value clients who come to therapy knowing I am an agent of change in their therapy, but the change they seek can only come from their own willingness to facilitate that change.