Services
- Individual
About My Clients
Are you looking for someone to not only listen and understand them, but who can help you see things in a new way and make concrete changes in your life? You feel stuck in anxiety or stress or sadness and space to explore your thoughts and feelings so you can get unstuck. You are open to accepting feedback that will help you see your problem in a new way. You want to reconnect with the things that make life meaningful and worth living.
My Background and Approach
In therapy, we will create a partnership wherein and my role is to provide feedback, listen and understand you, and teach you strategies to help you get unstuck from problematic patterns. Your role is to be open and honest and willing to implement the strategies we discuss. My approach to therapy for concerns like anxiety, depression, role transitions, and challenging relationships uses cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal processes to help facilitate change. For people ready to directly address their symptoms of PTSD, I provide Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) or Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy. I spent a year-long, supervised postdoctoral residency implementing these strategies (and others) for treating PTSD. Both treatments are structured approaches and require a significant commitment of time and energy. As a provider, I have experience working with many types of traumas, including combat trauma, natural disasters, and sexual violence.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I have a commitment to reducing suffering in this world. Whether that means engaging in a kind and friendly way with strangers, engaging in work as a therapist, or through voluntereering at an animal shelter, I try to make the world a bit better each day. Additionally, I believe in the importance interface between physical and mental health, so I try to support others in being physically active, and model this choice in my own life.