Services Offered

Specialties and Services offered:

(descriptions below)

  • Trauma & EMDR therapy

  • Couples therapy & intensive work

  • Anxiety, depression, & body Image

  • Gender affirming care/WPATH letters

  • Supervision for LMHCAs

Relationship Counseling

I work with couples two types of couples:

Couples who want to strengthen their love and bond and are struggling with difficulty in connecting as fully as they’d like to

and…

Couples who find themselves “hanging in there”, doing their best to continue in a relationship that no longer provides them with much joy. I love work with both couples.

My Approach

I work with you and your partner to understand the underlying pattern that supports disconnection or conflict. We go deeper to explore this and to understand both of your perspectives and lived experience. I integrate my extensive knowledge of trauma to meet you both where you are at and to untangle patterns that no longer serve you.

As a therapist, I am warm and direct. I will challenge you to see each others perspectives and the way you contribute to disconnection so that you can move out of these patterns. I will also hold you accountable to dynamics of power or not being empathetic and challenge you to show up in your partnership as just that—partners.

Couples Intensives for Couples on the Brink

Couples intensives are 2 hour sessions once per week. These sessions are for couples in crisis or wanting to see more immediate repair, this can expedite the process—Couples who are considering divorce or unsure if they want to continue their relationship.

I work with you and your partner to identify the issues and determine whether or not you would like to stay in the relationship. If you choose to stay in the relationship, we then commit to working together to repair the relationship and determine after a set amount of time if the relationship has progressed to point where you feel able/willing to continue to stay committed. I am with both of you every step of the way to encourage your path, whatever that may be, and your growth as individuals or relationally.

EMDR

EMDR is an approach to therapy that uses neuroscience to force our brain to reprocess and desensitize memories or negative beliefs. When we experience trauma, this trauma gets trapped in certain parts of our brain that doesn’t allow us to recover from it in the same way we would another upsetting event. EMDR uses a similar process as REM sleep to get physical and emotional trauma “unstuck”. You are fully awake and present and we focus on certain trauma and communicate throughout.

EMDR can be offered in 50 minute or 90 minute appointments. EMDR is an extremely effective treatment option that can be used to treat a variety of issues including:

  • PTSD

  • anxiety/depression

  • self-esteem issues

  • migraines

  • anger

  • disordered eating

  • non-medical sexual dysfunction

  • nightmares and restless sleeping