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, recovering from a traumatic event, or reducing stress and managing anxiety, I am passionate about supporting clients needs through science-backed interventions.

Note: I am not accepting new clients until Fall 2025, but I would be happy to make a referral or to add you to my contact list!

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.

Adjustment Disorders

Through life’s many challenges, 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.

Unusual or Difficult-to-Describe 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.

Common Questions

  • “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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care

Experiencing traumatic events can change the way we see the world and threaten our feelings of safety and security. Sometimes, experiencing traumatic events can lead us to have heightened worry, flashbacks and nightmares of troubling events, reduced activity and engagement in meaningful activities, and increased attention to our surroundings and fear-responsiveness. In some cases, individuals go on to develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after a traumatic event.

Evidence-based treatments for PTSD and trauma-related mental health problems include cognitive approaches to identify how traumatic events have changed our thinking about ourselves and the world, and behavioral approaches of exposure therapy to decrease arousal and worry related to the trauma and increase coping ability.

It is important to me to take a trauma-informed approach to care, acknowledging the impact of trauma and highly stressful events on clients’ navigation through the world and coping with mental health problems.

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