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About My Clients
I will do my best to create a safe environment and therapeutic alliance where you feel understood and not judged. I will focus our work on concrete skills you can learn to cope with present challenges and move forward with strength and resilience. I love working with adolescent age through adulthood. My wheelhouse is anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD/trauma history and parenting challenges.
My Background and Approach
I have been using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to treat depression and anxiety disorders for over a decade. This evidence-based practice has been proven to help clients achieve distance from their automatic thoughts and learn concrete strategies they can use to enact changes in the way they think and behave and ultimately feel significantly better. I also use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which is an action-oriented approach to therapy. It orients clients to their personal goals and helps them stop struggling with painful emotions and begin living a life of meaning and value. I also specialize in treating adolescents and adults with OCD with Exposure Response Prevention and PTSD with Cognitive Processing Therapy.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I care deeply about social justice and strive to practice therapy that affirms LGBTQ+ clients and BIPOC clients. Personal and interpersonal reflection on the role of privilege and bias in the therapeutic relationship is a regular part of my approach to helping clients.