Mental Health Services
I provide evidence-based treatment with a cognitive behavioral framework. Client-centered and compassionate care are the cornerstones of my practice. Whether transitioning through difficult life changes, reducing stress, or managing anxiety, I am passionate about supporting clients’ needs through science-backed interventions.
I am currently accepting new clients.
Please click the button to the right to request a free 15-minute consultation meeting.
Anxiety and Phobias
Anxiety is marked by worry, avoidance of people and situations that increase feelings of worry, and heightened physical arousal (think, sweating, shaking, increased heart rate, etc.). Worry can be general and happen across many situations and around many people, or specific and occur only in specific situations or when thinking about those scenarios.
Cognitive approaches to reducing anxiety may include identifying worried thoughts and practicing more helpful and realistic thinking, and behavioral approaches which change our actions to increase resilience and reduce worry.
To address specific anxieties or phobias, we will use exposure therapy to systematically decrease arousal and worry related to the phobia and increase ability to cope with phobia-related stimuli.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Adjustment Disorders
Through life’s many chapters, sometimes we need a helping hand. Adjustment disorders can include experiences of anxiety and/or depression and often follow a period of significant change. These can include having a baby, changing jobs, ending an important relationship, losing a loved one, or another major adjustment and can leave us feeling unmoored, struggling to cope with new feelings of worry, sadness, shame, or increased stress.
By applying principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, we will work together to identify personal goals and to take steps towards achieving them to improve mood, reduce anxiety and avoidance, and to increase values-based behaviors and meaningful activities.
Psychosis and Unusual Experiences
Sometimes, we may have unusual experiences that may be difficult to explain to others. This may include the sense that there is something going on that we can’t quite explain, perceptual changes like seeing or hearing things that others don’t, or feeling concerns about being monitored, observed, or otherwise threatened.
If these experiences sounds familiar to you, you are not alone! I have extensive expertise treating these unusual or difficult-to-describe experiences using cognitive behavioral therapy and a compassionate, stigma-reducing approach to reduce distress, worry and anxiety, and increase engagement in meaningful activities and achieving your goals.
Family Support for Psychosis
As an expert in psychosis spectrum disorders, I have also worked extensively with families and caregivers of folks with psychosis. Whether you are looking for long term support, exploring information about psychosis spectrum disorders, or coping with anxiety of your own— I am happy to work with individuals who are adjusting to their loved one’s diagnosis of psychosis or schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
Some people experience anxiety and distress related to intrusive or repetitive thoughts. These thoughts may be accompanied by behaviors, rituals, or thought-loops that temporarily reduce distress, but begin to feel burdensome over time. This pattern of intrusive thoughts and compensatory actions might indicate Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
When treating OCD we will use Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (EXRP), an evidence-based intervention to significantly reduce distress associated with obsessive thoughts. EXRP involves exposure to distressing thoughts or situations and intentional prevention of engagement in ritualistic or compulsive behaviors. With time, exposure reduces distress and increases our ability to do the things we love.
Common Questions
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Please submit the contact form on this site to be added to my contact list. After I have reviewed your information, I will be in contact to do a free, 30 minute consultation via Zoom. If we determine that we’re a great fit, we will schedule an intake appointment (60 minutes) and begin to identify your goals for therapy and a schedule moving forward.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) acknowledges that our thoughts (cognitions) and actions (behaviors) impact our emotions and vice versa. CBT combines both strategies to identify unhelpful thoughts and to develop more accurate and helpful thought patterns with identifying unhelpful or avoidant behaviors and modifying these to increase self-efficacy and reduce symptoms.
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“Evidence-based" means that interventions, or, treatments, have been tested through scientific study and have shown to be helpful in reducing symptoms of mental health problems as compared to no treatment or care as usual.
In my practice, I believe using evidence-based, science-driven treatments is critical to delivering ethical and effective mental health care.
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Everybody is different and the length of treatment will depend on your satisfaction with progress towards your goals. My client-centered approach to treatment means that I take your personal experience of mental health into account alongside regular, validated measures of symptoms to objectively track progress.
For specific anxieties/phobias and adjustment disorders, treatment tends to be shorter and targeted to specific goals.
Others may wish to have a longer therapeutic relationship to address longstanding difficulties with anxiety, trauma history, or managing life’s many stressors and appreciating its many gifts. I strive to maintain an open and honest dialogue about treatment progress in our work together.