Specialties
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I provide family therapy to support mutual emotional clarity, utilizing attachment-based modalities, such as Pain in the Heart (PITH) therapy. Whether families come in with goals of reconciliation, closure, increased boundaries, and/or improved communication, my approach supports healing and transparency. My task is to help family members encounter one another truthfully in order to support mutual emotional clarity.
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Estrangement can take many forms and is often marked by ambiguity and a lack of closure. Individual therapy for family estrangement will address the pain of disconnection, rebuild emotional safety, and begin the process of acceptance, closure, or attachment repair.
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Often couples become caught in cycles of hurt, guilt, and fear that make it difficult to truly see one another.
Utilizing depth and attachment-based therapy, I work with couples to understand the relationship the couple created together: how each of your histories, expectations, vulnerabilities, and ways of protecting yourselves shaped the relationship.
I support this process by slowing things down enough to understand what's happening beneath those cycles, so you can decide whether and how you want to rebuild trust and create new patterns together.
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OCD is characterized by uncontrollable, recurring thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions). Multiple evidence-based methods support individuals to find peace while living with OCD. I utilize Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help reduce the suffering associated with OCD.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based practice to support healing of difficult experiences and trauma. Using bilateral stimulation, I support clients to reprocess a past event or multiple events, including but not limited to attachment-based, racial, sexual, and economic trauma, in order to reduce its present emotional charge.
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Grief and loss is a universal human experience and can take many different forms. Whether your grief is anticipatory, ambiguous, acute, or prolonged, therapy will provide a space to experience, explore, and learn how to carry the profound sorrow of grief and loss as you move forward through life.
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I work across the life span, supporting children and adolescents to explore their voices and emotions at pivotal developmental stages. I utilize art therapy, narrative therapy, and drama therapy to support children and adolescents with depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma, identity questions, and family difficulties, including familial conflict, divorce/separation, and early childhood trauma.