Individual therapy with me is personalized to your specific needs. I am trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Attachment Theory, Narrative Therapy, Relaxation Techniques, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.

I consider myself to be a very real therapist--I am a person first and a therapist second. I believe strongly in authenticity, and the relationship you build with me in the therapy room is real--I am the person I present to you in session. I won't tell you to do anything that I wouldn't do, I won't tell you that going outside or meditating with seashells on your eyes will solve all of your problems, and I am not on board with toxic positivity. I will partner with you to find the right mix of therapy to get you to where you want to be.

Some of the individual therapy specialties I have include:

• Women and Women's Issues

  • Infertility

  • Adjusting to motherhood

  • Finding joy in motherhood (even though it is hard af)

  • Burn-out and stress

  • Managing the invisible load of your family

  • Balancing motherhood and career

  • Recovering from birth trauma, processing NICU experiences

  • Self-compassion (the antidote to self-image issues)

  • Shame work and recovery

• Teenagers and Young Adults

  • Phase of life concerns, adjustment concerns

  • Figuring things out

  • Improving relationships with parents/family

  • Developing independence

• Anxiety

• Grief and Loss

• Recovering from emotionally immature parents

  • Reparenting yourself following a neglectful childhood

  • Breaking patterns that are not serving you well

  • Stop the emotional manipulation and create boundaries

  • Create new parenting habits to prevent a repeating cycle

Family therapy looks different for every family. The key to family therapy is working together on concerns that affect the entire family and that the entire family has a stake or say in.

I want to partner with you and your family as a guide and an impartial third party who can help your family break negative patterns and improve communication and connection. Family therapy is often hard work and it requires commitment from everyone involved to be effective. It requires honesty--both to yourself and to the rest of your family--and it requires humility and a willingness to change and grow for the benefit of the entire family system.

Some of the family therapy specialities I have are:

• Families with teenagers that are struggling to adjust to their changing relationships

• Families with teenagers who just can't seem to communicate effectively

• Families who don't always seem to be on the same page

• Families who need support in making a major decision

• Families who feel their home and family are just too chaotic and want help figuring out how to calm everything down

• Families who feel disconnected and want to recommit to improving their relationships

Due to the nature of the work of family therapy and the importance of maintaining trust with all family members for the duration of treatment, I will not provide individual therapy to any member of a family that participates in family therapy with me. I am happy to provide referrals to any family member who wishes to pursue individual therapy.

I believe a few things about relationships:

1. A relationship is healthiest when there is both connection and independence. This a complex dynamic that requires emotional maturity and a great deal of trust.

2. The greatest gift parents can give their children is an example of a well-functioning and healthy relationship.

3. True connection and lasting commitment come from good communication.

4. Humility and forgiveness are the two most important qualities for a person in a relationship to have.

5. Every person is entitled to safety and respect from their partner(s), and every person is entitled to leave a relationship that is not safe or respectful.

Do you also believe these things? Are you and your partner(s) struggling to connect, not on the same page, arguing more, or not feeling as close as you have in the past? I can help. I rely heavily on communication skills and accessing emotions to support connection in my relationship therapy practice. Your relationship does not need to be on the verge of ending to seek relationship therapy; in fact, the chances of your relationship surviving increase the earlier you seek support. Come in for a check up, come in to talk through a serious issue you're feeling stalled on, come in to explore values and get on the same page. Tell me what brings you in. I can help.

I am kink-positive, body-positive, sex-positive, and experienced in working with couples+. Whatever your relationship looks like and whatever support you need, I am here for you.

I am a trained Gottman Therapist (Levels 1 & 2).

Parent Coaching is a skills-based educational service. Though there are often therapeutic elements to Parent Coaching, it is typically focused on acquiring skills. I believe strongly in an attachment-based and positive parenting approach. I partner with parents to identify boundaries that make sense for their family and work with them to explore logical consequences for failure to comply with rules. I believe in structure, logical but firm rules, natural consequences, and letting kids be kids. If this speaks to you, let's connect.

I offer three types of parent coaching at my practice:

• Educational Sessions

  • After hearing from you about your general specific needs for parent coaching, I will prepare information and share in a series of sessions that are lesson-based. There will be opportunities for questions and discussion of the implementation of the skills specific to your family, but this type of parent coaching is for general parenting skills, not necessarily targeted at specific problems.

  • This is a great option for individuals who need parent education services for custody or court reasons (though I do recommend verifying what specific type of service is required for you).

• Focus Sessions

  • In Focus Sessions, you come with a list of issues you're experiencing at home and we work together to develop plans to address these specific issues. A variety of parenting skills will be discussed with a focus on implementing skills that address specific issues you're experiencing at home.

• In-Home Intensive Services

  • Have you ever seen Super Nanny? With In-Home Intensive Services, I will observe your parenting dynamics in your home, develop a plan for what skills you would like to improve, and offer in-the-moment coaching designed to support you in strengthening the delivery of boundaries, limits, encouragement, consequences, and other important parenting skills. This is a highly personalized service that is built based on your specific needs.

Parent Coaching is not a therapeutic service and therefore I can provide virtual Parent Coaching services to anyone, anywhere. Just give me a call.

Coparenting is hard. Whether or not your separation was amicable, it is still challenging to raise children in two separate households that may not always align. I can provide therapeutic support and skills-coaching to parents who want to do their best to work together in the best interest of their children.

Scenarios that I have seen with coparents in the past include:

• Communication barriers that make decision-making challenging

• Support in planning how to share the news of a separation or divorce with children

• Disagreements about rules, expectations, and boundaries between households

• Concerns about how one household manages an aspect of their child's life--for example, how homework is handled in one household or how one household handles participation in soccer

• Introducing additional adults into the coparenting dynamic

• Developing a communication system that is effective for all involved adults and never puts the child in the middle of adult concerns

• How to discuss the other parent or household with your child

• Mediation on issues--for example, creating a visitation schedule or adjusting a schedule to accommodate summer vacation schedules

I have over seven years of experience providing supervision to social workers. While my current service offerings focus on adults and relationships, my background is quite varied and I have extensive experience working with young children as well. I have treated a wide variety of conditions and disorders, including anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicidal ideation, obsessive-compulsive disorder, ADHD, oppositional-defiance, trauma, and Bipolar disorder. I have also worked in a variety of settings, including non-profits, schools, psychiatric hospitals, and private practice. I would be happy to schedule a free consultation to see if we would be a good fit for supervision. I can provide both virtual and in-person supervision services.

Rate for Supervision: $125/hour