EXPERTISE

  • Procrastination, time management, organization, inattention, building executive functioning skills

    SCREEN FOR ADHD

  • Anxiety and difficulty controlling worrying, including social anxiety and phobias

    SCREEN FOR ANXIETY

    SCREEN FOR SOCIAL ANXIETY

  • Body-focused repetitive behaviors, such as hair-pulling (Trichotillomania) and skin-picking (Excoriation Disorder).

    SCREEN FOR TRICHOTILLOMANIA

    SCREEN FOR EXCORIATION DISORDER

  • Symptoms including fear of abandonment, chronic suicidality, feelings of emptiness, dissociation, impulse control, self-harm, emotional dysregulation, relationship conflict/volatility

    SCREEN FOR BPD

  • Feeling down, depressed, low energy, fatigue, difficulty with engaging in regular life activities, sleep disturbance, appetite disturbance, suicidal ideation

    Screen for depression

    Screen for suicidal ideation

  • Feeling disconnected from your body, feeling “spaced out” or “checked out”, feeling like things around you aren’t real

    SCREEN FOR DISSOCIATION

  • Pain and mourning related to the death of a loved one; complicated or prolonged grief as a result of untimely, sudden, violent, or otherwise traumatic death of a loved one

    SCREEN FOR PROLONGED GRIEF

  • Women's experiences, including distress around misogyny/sexism, gender roles, sexual harassment, double-bind (career/motherhood), glass ceiling, feminism

    Immigrant, Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI), and BIPOC experiences, including diaspora, intergenerational trauma and conflict, value discrepancy with older/1st generation family members, connecting to heritage, acculturation, multi-cultural/heritage experience, internalized racism, fetishization, objectification

    LGBTQ+ experiences, including identity exploration and formation, self-acceptance, internalized homo/transphobia, navigating coming out process, dating/sex/relationships

  • Difficulty with emotional intimacy and trusting others, attachment issues.

    SCREEN FOR ATTACHMENT ISSUES
    SCREEN FOR RELATIONSHIP ISSUES

    I AM NOT currently offering couples therapy.

    I DO NOT work with individuals or couples in an active DV/IPV situation. Please see here for more specialized support.

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma/stress related disorders, including: inter-generational/family of origin physical, emotiona, psychological, sexual abuse; growing up with mentally unstable parents/family members; Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents (ACEIP); sexual assault; military based sexual and/or combat trauma; being bullied/humiliated

    SCREEN FOR TRAUMA

    Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), derealization, depersonalization

    SCREEN FOR DISSOCIATION

Training

  • Certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) by EMDRIA

  • Advanced EMDR training including: the Flash Technique, structural dissociation, “Easy Ego State Interventions” by Robin Shabiro, future template, Attachment-Focused EMDR, EMDR intensives, Advanced Training for Trauma Treatment of Complex PTSD

  • Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist (CAGCS) Certification (ongoing)

  • Ego State Therapy Level 1

  • ASCH-approved clinical hypnosis Level 1 trained through OSCH

  • Treatment of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents (ACEIP) with Lindsay Gibson

  • Comprehensive Behavioral (ComB) Treatment for skin-picking and hair-pulling

  • Certified in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

  • Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

  • Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)

Clients I do not generally work with:

  • Children 18 and under

  • Families

  • Court-ordered treatment of any sort

  • Needing sex offender treatment/sexual evaluation

  • Active eating disorder and not in specialized care

  • Active substance use disorder and not in specialized care

  • Active domestic violence/interpersonal violence

  • Only Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

  • Only Substance Use Disorder

  • Only Personality Disorder

  • Only Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Only Eating Disorder