I believe therapy should be a collaborative, active process. In our work together, I bring warmth, directness, and flexibility along with evidence-based tools grounded in clinical science. My focus is on helping you develop insight into your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and using that insight to take meaningful, sustainable action. You will build skills to break patterns, challenge avoidance, and build new neural pathways. I integrate approaches that are backed by research and tailored to your needs. I don’t use every therapy with everyone: we’ll decide together which approach best matches your goals.
In individual therapy, specialize in helping clients with:
Anxiety
Depression
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Attention & Focus Challenges (ADHD)
Emotion Dysregulation / Mood Instability
Post-Traumatic Stress (PTSD)
Couples Work
Parenting support
I’ll meet you with structure, flexibility, and tools.
Research shows that evidence-based therapies like CBT, DBT, and exposure-based treatments help change not just how we think and feel but how the brain itself functions, for long-term benefit. Our brains are capable of neuroplasticity meaning they can prune old, unhelpful pathways and form new neural connections throughout life. By practicing new ways of thinking, responding, and relating to emotions, therapy helps "rewire" brain pathways that have been shaped by stress, anxiety, trauma, or habit. Over time, this process makes it easier to respond with flexibility instead of reactivity and to break patterns that once felt automatic.
CBT is a structured, goal-oriented therapy that helps you understand how your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are interconnected and how certain patterns might be keeping you stuck. We’ll work together to identify the habits of thinking or reacting that are getting in the way of your goals, whether that’s managing anxiety, improving mood, or staying focused. By noticing these patterns in real time, you can build new strategies that help you respond more effectively and create real, lasting change.
While I do not practice comprehensive DBT anymore, I take a DBT-informed approach when working with individuals, couples and parents. It’s especially useful if you experience intense emotions, difficulty managing impulsive or self-defeating behaviors, or rigid thinking. It focuses on helping you better regulate emotions, cope with distress, and improve relationships by integrating skills of mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. In therapy, we’ll practice tools for being more present, finding balance between acceptance and change, and responding to difficult situations in more effective ways. I integrate DBT for families when working with parents who are searching for help in supporting their children and couples looking to improve communication and reduce conflict.
ExRP is an evidence-based treatment for OCD that involves gradually facing feared thoughts or situations that activate intrusive thoughts or obsessions while resisting the urge to perform mental or physical compulsions. Through this process, you will learn to tolerate discomfort, reduce avoidance, and retrain your brain’s response to anxiety.
CPT is a structured, evidence-based treatment that helps you identify and shift thoughts that keep you stuck after trauma, especially beliefs around trust, control, safety, self-blame, and self-worth. These “stuck points” can shape how you see yourself and the world, often in ways that feel limiting or distressing. Using cognitive techniques, we’ll examine those beliefs and build new ways of balanced thinking that support healing and flexibility.
Prolonged Exposure is a structured therapy that helps you gradually approach trauma-related memories, emotions, and situations you’ve been avoiding. Avoidance is a natural response to trauma, but over time it can reinforce fear and make everyday life feel more limited or overwhelming. You will engage in imaginal and in vivo exposures to revisit and talk through the traumatic memory in a safe, guided way to reduce its emotional intensity and gradually face real-life situations that feel threatening or triggering, respectively. Your brain learns that you can tolerate distress, that you are not in danger now, and that you don’t have to stay stuck in fear.
I bring evidence-based Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills training directly to your workplace, offering interactive workshops tailored to your team’s needs. Workshops focus on fostering resilience, emotional wellness, and better communication through:
Mindfulness & Presence: Cultivating awareness of moment-to-moment experience, reducing automatic reactivity
Emotion Regulation: Identifying and modifying emotional responses, building capacity for stability
Distress Tolerance: Learning strategies to cope when things feel overwhelming (without making things worse)
Interpersonal Effectiveness: Communicating clearly and assertively, navigating conflict, maintaining boundaries
Each workshop is interactive, incorporating practical exercises, role-plays, group discussion, and case-based examples to bring theory into real-world use.
Workshops are customizable by duration and format (e.g. one time or weekly 60-minute lunch-and-learn, virtual or in-person). I can also incorporate:
Takeaway materials & handouts for ongoing practice
Follow-up “booster sessions” or check-ins to support sustained integration
Whether you’re aiming to boost team resilience, reduce conflict, or support employee well-being, these DBT-based wellness workshops offer tools that people can use both in and out of the workplace.