My Clinical Approach

My style is earnest, flexible, and collaborative. Whether it's teaching you a practical coping strategy, helping you to connect to your feelings and thoughts, or making sense of something that seems confusing, my aim is to work alongside you, curiously exploring and offering new perspectives to your concerns.

An ideal patient would also value an emotion-based and interpersonal approach to treatment; few factors consistently predict effective treatment outcomes like the strong bond between your therapist and you. (Review of this research)

Psychotherapy can be helpful in redefining how you relate to others and yourself, and in identifying and nurturing your needs.

My treatment approach is integrative, person-centered, and evidence-based. It is grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP).

My postgraduate training includes Cognitive Behavior Therapy (e.g., Exposure Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention) for panic, phobias, and obsessive compulsive disorder and Compassion Focused Therapy. I am also trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)*, and offer this as an adjunctive treatment for traumatic stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. I have also completed years of doctoral level training, supervision, and coursework in psychodynamic psychotherapy (under Nancy McWilliams, PhD), a framework that allows me to more deeply appreciate the depths of my client’s pain and relationship patterns, both with themselves and with others.