Services

  • Individual counseling provides a supportive, non-judgmental space to explore behavioral and emotional patterns, identify your needs, process past experiences, connect to your body, and better your relationship to yourself and others. Individual therapy sessions are typically 50-55 minutes weekly, and are for clients located in NY State.

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy is an empirically evaluated treatment for trauma. EMDR can be used to alleviate distress associated with specific acute trauma, as well as being helpful for anxiety, phobias, depression, C-PTSD, attachment wounds, and pain syndromes. EMDR does not necessitate memory retrieval. EMDR facilitates nervous system regulation and allows for processing of the emotional roots of many of our present day problems. EMDR sessions are typically 60 minutes.

  • Coaching offers a more present and future-oriented focus than counseling, and utilizes action planning and practical strategies towards a client’s goal. I offer specific Health Coaching for those experiencing health changes, chronic illness or chronic pain. Health Coaching may include strategizing around medical treatments and appointments, reviewing health plans holistically, collaborating with other medical providers, and providing psychoeducation around inflammatory conditions, pain science and nervous system involvement. Coaching appointments are 60 minutes. Coaching clients may be located anywhere in the world.

  • I offer 60-minute video supervision appointments for LMSWs or other mental health counselors looking for consultation and support on the principles of trauma-informed, body-centered, attachment- based work, as well as practices in ACT, IFS, and EMDR. I offer a specialty in working with chronic illness/chronic pain patients, trauma, and attachment. For more details about the cost and scheduling of supervision, please contact me via email.

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Specialties

  • Relationship Challenges

    Together, we can explore and address relationship challenges with partners, friends, parents, siblings, and coworkers. In therapy, we can develop insight around behavioral and emotional patterns from the past and present to create change in our relationships.

    I often work with clients on these relational issues:

    • Anxious/avoidant attachment behaviors

    • Relationship ambivalence

    • Difficulty forming intimacy bonds

    • High conflict romantic and platonic relationships

    • Sibling trauma

    • Childhood neglect and abuse

    • Codependency

    • Fear of being alone

    • Caregiver stress and resentment

    • Communication and boundary-setting

    • Issues around trust and control

    • Avoidance of closeness and commitment

    • The impact of a partner/parent/sibling’s mental health issues or illness on the client

  • Trauma Recovery

    I draw upon trauma-informed practices from somatic therapies, ACT, IFS, and EMDR to support clients in processing and integrating traumatic experience into a rich, meaningful life moving forward.

    I have expertise in helping clients navigate chronic attachment trauma and C-PTSD, as well as processing acute sexual trauma and medical trauma.

    Clients often come to therapy to process traumatic material from:

    • Difficult family relationships in childhood

    • Emotional or verbal abuse

    • Car accidents, house fires, natural disasters

    • Death and loss

    • Breakups and divorces

    • Assaults

    • Infidelity

    • Medical trauma

    • High stress work environments

    • Experiences from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic

    • and more

    Trauma recovery addresses ongoing nervous system dysregulation and increasing resilience and coping capacity.

  • Chronic Pain & Chronic Illness

    My own experience with chronic pain and chronic illness inspired a shift in my therapeutic training and education in the mind-body connection. I practice therapy from the belief that the whole system is connected, and I utilize somatic-informed methods, including nervous system regulation, pain science concepts, physical mindfulness exercises, understanding pain as a “part” of the system via IFS, and employing EMDR processing to evolve the client’s relationship to their pain or illness, as well as to their treatment experience.

    Therapy addressing chronic pain and chronic illness can often reduce flare-ups, alter pain signaling, shift the inner monologue around symptoms as they arise, decrease secondary panic/anxiety/depression symptoms, and validate the grief of living with a health condition. Treatment may also address medical trauma, medical gaslighting, isolation, complicated feelings around help-seeking, and the loss of ability and former self.

    Common conditions I work with include: Long Covid, Chronic Pelvic Pain, MCAS, POTS, Endometriosis, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility, Chronic Orthopedic Pain, Autoimmune conditions, Women’s Health/Hormonal Issues, ME/CFS

  • Grief & Loss

    There’s a before and after to loss, and in the after, there’s uncertainty, powerlessness, identity crisis, isolation, existential rage and fear, old trauma re-emerging — there is grief as one version of life comes to an end.

    Loss includes, and is not limited to:

    • Death

    • Estrangement

    • Divorce and Separation

    • Friendship Loss

    • Pet Loss

    • Significant Health Change

    • Fertility Challenges

    • Terminal Illness

    • Job Loss

    • Loss of Safety after a trauma

    • Bankruptcy

    • Identity Loss

    • Anticipatory Grief

    Navigating grief often includes developing psychological flexibility and resilience, building mindfulness habits, processing traumatic material, and integrating the loss into the new self.