Areas of Expertise

I thoroughly get to know each client in order to customize a treatment plan and approach tailored specifically for the individual.  I am comfortable implementing techniques from humanistic, existential, CBT, emotionally focused, trauma-informed, narrative, mindfulness based, and psychodynamic approaches.

Recovery from Emotionally Abusive Relationships

•Narcissistic/sociopathic abuse

•Gaslighting

•The cycle of abuse

•Navigating divorce & coparenting

•Rebuilding self-esteem

•Recognizing trauma responses

Trauma: PTSD & Complex ptsd

•Healing from both capital "T" and lower case "t" traumas

•Domestic violence

•Sexual assault

•Bullying

•Childhood trauma

•Neglect

•Adult children of narcissists

•Pandemic trauma recovery

•Identifying & replacing unhealthy trauma responses

•Generational trauma

teen counseling

•Anxiety & social anxiety

•Depression

•Bullying

•Self-esteem issues

•Social withdrawal

•Stress management

•Recovery from trauma

•Relationship/friendship troubles

•Disturbance of conduct

•Emotional regulation

•Social skill deficits

Anxiety

•Social anxiety

•Obsessive compulsive tendencies

•Stress management

•Relationship anxiety

•Health anxiety

•Panic attacks

•Pandemic stress/anxiety/fear

•Irritability


Depression & Mood

•Major depressive episodes

•Suicidal ideation

•Grief/loss

•Loss of motivation

•Sleep disturbances

•Fatigue/low energy

•Career dissatisfaction

•Mid-life & quarter-life crises

Relationship & Attachment Issues

•Identifying insecure attachment styles and working toward security

•Divorce recovery

•Dating/relationship anxiety

•Destructive relationship patterns

•Identifying and breaking out of repetition compulsions

•Increasing self-confidence