I draw from proven treatment models to provide a robust therapeutic experience.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a highly-engaging process that helps you identify and break free from thinking patterns that keep you stuck. As thoughts shift, so do emotions and behaviors. CBT treats a very wide range of difficulties, including anxiety, depression, mood disorders, body dysmorphia, and post-traumatic stress (PTSD) disorder.

CBT is the most widely-researched, scientifically-supported psychotherapeutic method. CBT forms the basis for other evidence-based treatments.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), is a powerful evidence-based treatment that helps you develop skills to:
• manage excessive negative emotions,
• tolerate high levels of distress,
• increase focus on the present moment, and
• communicate and connect with others.

Patterns of black-and-white thinking intensify difficult emotions. DBT helps you find the shades of gray by considering how opposite ideas can be true at the very same time. “I am doing the best I can,” and “I can do better” is a core concept.

DBT was initially developed to treat intense emotional dysregulation. Now its effectiveness is proven for many difficulties, including anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress, to name a few.

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) I am a certified provider of TF-CBT, considered the gold standard of trauma treatment for children and adolescents (up to age 18).

Whether your child has had one trauma or multiple adverse experiences, TF-CBT can help. TF-CBT is a short-term treatment (from approximately 12 – 24 weekly sessions) that enables young people and their parents/caregivers to overcome common emotional and behavioral responses to adversity, including
• Guilt
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Behavioral outbursts
• PTSD symptoms of sleeplessness, agitation, flashbacks, nightmares, anger, poor concentration, hypervigilance, emotional numbness and low self-worth
• Somatic responses of bed-wetting, stomachaches, headaches, night terrors, self-harm

Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD is an evidence-based form of cognitive behavioral therapy for adults seeking to overcome trauma, whether from a single incident or a series of adverse experiences.

The effects of trauma may persist far beyond the event(s) by creating or reinforcing thoughts that prevent you from feeling safe, happy and confident and thwart healthy connections with others. CPT for PTSD helps you discover and question beliefs which are not helpful or true for you, referred to as “stuck points.”
This structured therapy has been shown to improve:
• Ability to place trust in self and others
• Sense of safety
• Relationships and intimacy
• Self-esteem
• Sense of personal power
• Tolerance of stressful emotions.

“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
-Brene Brown