Short and Long-term Psychotherapy

I work with children, adolescents, adults, and couples.

Psychodynamic Therapy:

• Identifying, acknowledging, and understanding your feelings

• Self-awareness and insight

• Understanding how you relate to yourself and others

• Relationship patterns

• Coping through acknowledging feelings and thoughts

• Finding meaning in your emotional life

Couples Therapy

I work from an attachment/emotion-focused therapy perspective. EFT has a strong evidence base. I also integrate psychodynamic frameworks. I help couples disentangle from unhelpful patterns and develop emotionally closer bonds for a more satisfying relationship.

Mindfulness:

• Mindfulness involves focusing one’s attention on something (i.e. the breath, walking, sounds, sensations, etc.) in a nonjudgmental manner

• When your attention naturally shifts away from the object of focus, you gently bring your attention back

• Mindfulness can help you become more aware of your thoughts and feelings, as well as bodily cues to your mood.

Specialties

• self-doubt, low self-esteem and shame

• self image

• difficulty navigating intimate relationships

• dating

• sibling issues

• depression and mood difficulties

• college and graduate students

• smartphone overuse

• perfectionism

• imposter syndrome

• bodily or psychosomatic symptoms

• performance anxiety (e.g. writers, college athletes, giving a presentation)

• grief and sudden loss

• men’s issues, fatherhood, and masculinity issues

• young adults/emerging adulthood