Services
- Individual
About My Clients
I work with people living with anxiety, sadness, loss, addiction, and illness to move through these experiences and connect with what matters. We will learn and use practical tools to help us handle difficult thoughts and feelings, stay with experience, and act with intention. We will explore love, work, play, and how we can live engaged and meaningful lives. It's natural to try to shut down what's hard, but by opening up to it, we can expand our capacity for creativity, courage, and connection.
My Background and Approach
It is common to assume that something is wrong with us and that we need to be "fixed". In trying to "get that fix", we often work really hard to try to control our thoughts and feelings. My practice is based on the premise that this approach is ultimately unworkable, but that we can create new ways of relating to our experiences that free us to live our lives with courage, presence, and meaning. We'll focus not so much on "curing symptoms" but on how we relate with our thoughts, feelings, awareness, personal histories, relationships, and values. I am based in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and use evidence-based behavioral therapies with an existential, socially aware perspective. I am a master's student at Rutgers where my program highlights affirming approaches to chronic illness and disability. I have a background in poetry, philosophy, critical theory, and the arts.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I get the critical problems we face today in our world. I also get that mental health spaces often invalidate this. That's a big reason I got into this field. We can talk about it: your phone and the internet, your culture, your economic situation, social crises, climate change. How do we even live in a time like this? How do we do it well? (Hint: you don't have to live like a wellness influencer to do it!) I am a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance and dedicated to helping people experiencing climate or "metacrisis" related distress. I do not and will not use AI.