Mental healthcare rooted in a trusting therapeutic relationship and proven methods.
Assessment-based care
We all look to science and data to inform our decision making, and the same should go for your mental health care. By regularly assessing your symptoms and functioning, you are more likely to meet your goals and experience a successful outcome. You will regularly complete brief questionnaires to inform your course of therapy in ways that are personalized to your needs and will enhance your treatment experience.
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Assessment
We will regularly assess your symptoms and functioning with validated measures.
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Outcome measurement
We will adjust your course of treatment based on the success of certain interventions and therapeutic modalities.
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Therapeutic alliance
We will check in often about the quality of our therapeutic relationship and will process interpersonal dynamics that occur.
"I am not here to make people comfortable or to be liked. My purpose is to know and experience love. This means excavating the unsaid. In the world and in me."
— BRENE BROWN
My therapeutic frameworks
Whether you’re coming to therapy for the first time, or you’re looking for a specific treatment modality, my knowledge and expertise in a variety of theories and approaches is likely to fit your needs.
Attachment-based Therapy
With an emphasis on rebuilding trust and expressing emotions, an attachment-based approach looks at the connection between early attachment experiences with primary caregivers and its impact on the ability to form and sustain healthy emotional and physical relationships as adults. Exploration of early attachment experiences, psychoeducation, and relearning of what constitutes healthy attachment is emphasized.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
DBT focuses on learning new skills to manage painful thoughts and emotions, while decreasing interpersonal conflict and improving meaningful connection with others. Mindfulness is used to accept the present moment, while distress tolerance and emotion regulation is geared toward decreasing avoidance and increasing one’s ability to cope through negative internal experiences. Assertive communication that maintains self-respect, safety, and strengthens relationships is also a main focus of DBT.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Rooted in a Psychodynamic framework, the focus is not solely the reduction of symptoms —though such improvements do occur—but rather on changing ingrained patterns of relating and being with others. Awareness of repetitive patterns that have originated in experiences with past and present significant others is cultivated. Through awareness and insight of these patterns, a corrective emotional and interpersonal experience occurs, and new ways of relating are learned.
Mindfulness-based Therapy
Often we struggle to be content in the here and now and spend too much time ruminating about the past or worrying about the future. Mindfulness based therapy aims to let go of distressing thoughts, emotions, and experiences by tuning into your sensing and feeling brain, and out of your thinking brain. By focusing on thoughts and sensations that arise in the body and approaching them without judgement or criticalness, a calm and neutral state can be achieved anywhere.
Trauma Focused Therapy
Through a variety of trauma processing frameworks, we will explore the ways your safety, trust, sense of control, self-esteem, physiological arousal, and intimacy with others have been impacted as a result of a traumatic experience(s). Gaining insight and awareness into your trauma-based autopilot, choosing new ways to make sense of your experience, and coping in empowering ways constitute the goals of processing trauma.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
ACT is an action-oriented approach in which clients learn why avoiding, denying, and struggling with inner emotions is counterproductive, and why mindfulness, acceptance, and detaching from thoughts offers more effective and lasting relief. With a focus on acceptance, clients commit to making necessary changes in behavior based on their Values and long-term goals.