Individual Evidence-Based Therapy
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
DBT is a skills-based, specialized therapy that focuses on helping people decrease impulsive behaviors and increase emotional regulation to build a life in line with your goals. DBT achieves this by teaching a variety of skills that help increase awareness of emotions and reactions, change and prevent difficult emotions, ride out a crisis without making it worse, and navigate relationship stressors. An individual DBT therapist assesses your specific treatment goals, and helps you both understand and manage your emotions, and integrate these skills to fit the particular challenges of your life.
DBT can often include a group therapy component, while I do not offer DBT group therapy at present, I can provide individual skills training for those who are looking to add DBT skills to their therapy toolkit. I can also refer clients to a DBT group to supplement the DBT work we are doing in individual therapy.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT is an evidence-based psychotherapy that focuses on how emotions, thoughts, and behaviors interact and how these interactions influence your daily functioning and mood. It is a time-limited, present-oriented, and structured therapy that offers practical solutions and coping strategies to manage the difficulties in one’s life. I utilize various CBT treatment protocols that are backed by research, to target the specific presenting symptoms that you bring to treatment. These include Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD, additional Exposure-based protocols for anxiety disorders, CBT for Depression, and CBT targeting perfectionism.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR Therapy is an extremely effective means of alleviating distress associated with trauma and difficult life experiences. When engaging in this treatment, an individual will think about a memory while following moving lights, sounds or vibrations. This helps to take the power out of past events that bring up strong reactions in the present, and helps individuals process and reintegrate the memory in a more helpful way in their brains, bodies, and everyday life. EMDR helps you to feel calmer, more in control of your reactions, and more at peace with past events and helps your nervous system achieve a sense of safety. EMDR is very helpful in breaking problematic patterns in your life that have been informed by your past.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
PE and CPT are evidence-based trauma treatments based in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. These treatments help individuals who are struggling with distress after experiencing an extreme life stressor or traumatic event. Through the treatment protocols, individuals face aspects of the trauma that they have been avoiding, and learn to adopt more effective beliefs around themselves, the world, and the future. Through engaging in these evidence-based trauma protocols, individuals experience symptom relief and often feel a sense of mastery and competence in their life. We will work together to determine which trauma treatment is the best fit for your goals and symptoms.
Family + Relationship Therapy
Parent Coaching
Parenting a child with mental health difficulties often brings up challenges that require additional tools. I provide DBT-informed Parent Coaching to parents who need help skillfully navigating conflict with their child and setting limits with confidence. Parent coaching will help you to respond effectively rather than reacting from emotion and know what to do when your child has big emotions. Coaching will also help you figure out how to implement rules and consequences that work for your family and actually stick.
Couple and Family Therapy
Couples and Family Therapies allow for all of the individuals to enter the therapy space and share perspectives and emotions in order to better resolve recurring interaction patterns. Couples therapy helps improve communication, navigate emotional mismatches, and help increase intimacy and connection. Family Therapy helps families to identify family communication dynamics that get in the way of effective interactions, increase validation and emotional support, and move towards collaborative problem-solving as a family.