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Are you feeling overwhelmed by life’s demands? Do you find yourself in a new stage of life, that feels daunting and now you are lacking confidence? Maybe you've had a past trauma that was buried for a long time, but it's now popping up and causing intense emotions. You are not alone. Many people face these struggles, and the good news is there are ways to rebuild healthy patterns, which will bring back stability and calm.

Together in therapy, you’ll find a safe space to explore these feelings and gain clarity. It is a sacred time in your schedule where you can pause, reflect on what’s really important and make meaningful steps towards increased wellness.

I find that many of my clients are feeler types, deeply empathic, big thinkers, and blessed with many talents. However, common issues they struggle with include: anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, eating disorders or family stress. Your symptoms might include more irritability, exhaustion from doing mental acrobatics, or caught in a worry spiral at night when you want precious sleep.

In sessions, my approach is to use a blend of modalities to help you manage your stressors and gain more confidence. We will talk about unhealthy thinking patterns, figure out how to be more assertive, try on practical strategies for increasing emotional resiliency and learn to accept all your emotions, even the hard ones. Therapy will empower you to navigate your challenges and foster a more balanced and fulfilling life.

Being a teenager or young adults is not easy. It’s a time of so much change and growth. With that comes the excitement of more independence, competence and freedom. However, there is also the hard stuff. Such as added responsibility, heightened emotions, navigating friends/relationships/family, and figuring out what kind of person you want to be in the world.

With over 20 years experience working with teenagers and young adults, I understand these challenges and I can be that supportive adult outside the family to turn to during times of stress. My approach with teenagers and young adults is very personable. I primarily use talk therapy, but depending on developmental stage and preferences, I will also incorporate making art, playing games, going to the park and listening to music together. I make sure to match my interventions and communication style to best fit the youth. For minors, I keep caregivers in the loop and provide them with regular updates and offer separate caregiver sessions. When appropriate I will suggest a joint family session.

I support young people with anxiety, depression, identity development, navigating friendships, going to college or starting work, separated parents or dealing with a past trauma. I am also trained in Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for Eating Disorders.

Parenting is a journey filled with both joy and challenges. It is natural to feel overwhelmed and confused at times. It may appear everyone has it together, but you actually feel alone in your household, grasping for ideas. Many parents seek to diverge from inter-generational family patters and find new strategies that resonate with their philosophy. I partner with these brave parents who are seeking support managing these challenging situations and gaining a new-found sense of perspective.

With a background in children and family work, I bring a strong understanding of developmental stages, typical and atypical behaviors, normative emotional expression and how to be a sturdy parent fostering deep connection and appropriate limit setting. Together, we can work through strategies for big emotions, challenging behaviors, sibling dynamics, ADHD, anxiety, sleep problems, divorce, life transitions and/or identity development. We will make space for analyzing how current practices are informed by culture, inter-generational trauma, and systems of oppression. My coaching services are designed to support you in these areas by offering practical strategies, empathetic guidance, and effective tools tailored to each family’s unique needs. And I am there along with you on the journey, witnessing the highs and lows and celebrating all the successes.

I find parenting work is a parallel learning process. Children can be parents' greatest teachers. Often the challenges they present encourage parents to be a better version of themselves. And since children learn so much via modeling their core relationships, it’s important for parents to be regulated with their own emotions. I guide parents to be a source of connection for their children when they have big emotions, rather than them feeling alone or wrong for having their feelings.

In Parent Coaching, I help parents build more confidence in their abilities and have some guiding principals to fall back on when they find themselves in sticky situations. My approach is strength-based and encourages self-compassion even when there have been ruptures or mistakes. As a parent myself, I am humbled and impressed by parents taking the time to reflect on their practices and being willing to grow.

The best healing is done in relationships.

Humans are innately relational. They are influenced by those they grow up with, require one another to get needs met and find ways to make meaning together. However, our core relationship templates - families - are also complicated and messy. It is inevitable, ruptures will occur. Especially during challenging times, such as: transitions, separations, moves, financial stressors and societal pressures. Whenever there is emotional pain, most often it's related to feeling let down by one of our core relationships. Therefore, more profound healing will also happen when people are brought together. Whenever there is a rupture, there is opportunity for repair.

When working with families (two or more members in the session), I encourage direct communication, building empathy and spending quality time together. I carefully help families take out what’s swept under the rug and make the unspeakable speakable. Family sessions can be especially helpful for children or adolescents with anxiety, depression, past trauma or eating disorders. Often when family relationships are sturdier, children’s problematic behaviors and mental health symptoms subside. And other family members feel better at the same time. People often say being in therapy together is awkward at first, but just like anything new, it gets better with practice and can pave the way for healthier interactions in the future.

In addition to standard Family Therapy I also obtained training in Family-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders (FBT) and can support youth and young adults with anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorders, and Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). This type of therapy is very intensive and involves collaborating with family, doctors, nutritionists and school. I support parents to take care of their loved-ones eating disorder as well as other co-occurring mental health disorders.

Do you feel stuck? Do you struggle with depression or anxiety or a past trauma and have tried different therapies and/or meds for many years but are still not finding the relief you want? I offer a safe therapeutic modality called Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) in partnership with an organization called Journey Clinical. Journey Clinical is a mental health organization dedicated to delivering evidence-based Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy treatments. They have started with Ketamine, an FDA-approved medicine prescribed off-label for mental health with a long track record of clinical safety.

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is a holistic modality in which ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, is used as a complement to psychotherapy to help eligible patients experience more frequent breakthroughs and sustained improvement in symptoms. I take on the psychotherapy portion of the experience, while Journey Clinical’s medical team supports on all medical aspects. This includes determining eligibility, developing a custom treatment plan, prescribing the lozenge medicine and monitoring outcomes.

Because ketamine increases the neuroplasticity of the brain, psychotherapy in the stage after the dosing of ketamine is a ripe time for making new connections, patterns and behavioral changes. I support clients making sense of the insights and experiences felt during the ketamine journey, this work is called “integration.” Often people have results or break-throughs which help process trauma and emotions that were harder to access with traditional talk-therapy.

As a KAP practitioner, I am very excited about offering this emerging new treatment modality to accelerate clients’ healing. I support clients to make an individualized plan for their ketamine experience that feels safe and supported. Usually this includes at minimum one preparation session before the ketamine dosing session and at least one integration session after the dosing session, to help process and solidify the experience. I find this works especially well in conjunction with an already established individual therapy relationship, where there is trust and defined goals. If interested, please reach out and I can share more details and resources.

¿Se siente abrumado por las exigencias de la vida? ¿Te encuentras en una nueva etapa de la vida, que te parece desalentadora y ahora te falta confianza? Tal vez hayas tenido un trauma pasado que estuvo enterrado durante mucho tiempo, pero ahora está apareciendo y provocando emociones intensas. Usted no está solo. Mucha gente se enfrenta a estas luchas y la buena noticia es que hay formas de reconstruir patrones saludables que les devolverán la estabilidad y la calma.

Juntos en la terapia, encontrarán un espacio seguro para explorar estos sentimientos y ganar claridad. Es un momento sagrado en su agenda donde puede hacer una pausa, reflexionar sobre lo que es realmente importante y dar pasos significativos hacia un mayor bienestar.

Los problemas comunes con los que luchan incluyen: ansiedad, depresión, trauma, transiciones de vida, trastornos alimentarios o estrés familiar. Ofrezco terapia individual para adultos y adolescentes. Si es necesario, también puedo ofrecer sesiones de terapia familiar o asesoramiento para padres, donde trabajo solo con padres para encontrar soluciones a las dificultades difíciles de la crianza. Y, por último, ofrecí terapia asistida con ketamina, para aquellos mayores de 18 años que buscan una experiencia más profunda que sea realmente prometedora para personas con depresión o ansiedad prolongadas o para aquellos que se sienten muy "estancados".

En las sesiones, mi enfoque es utilizar una combinación de modalidades para ayudarlo a manejar sus factores estresantes y ganar más confianza. Hablaremos sobre patrones de pensamiento poco saludables, cómo ser más asertivo, practicaremos estrategias prácticas para aumentar la resiliencia emocional y aprenderemos a aceptar todas tus emociones, incluso las más difíciles. La terapia le permitirá afrontar sus desafíos y fomentar una vida más equilibrada y plena.