Specializations
Couples & Relationships
Anxiety, OCD, & Perfectionism
Anxiety, OCD, & Perfectionism
Sixty-nine percent of relationship problems are perpetual and unsolvable. Gottman spent decades proving this, which is either devastating or a relief depending on how long you've been arguing about the same thing. The research is equally clear that your relationships are the single greatest predictor of a happy life. You're not here to fi
Sixty-nine percent of relationship problems are perpetual and unsolvable. Gottman spent decades proving this, which is either devastating or a relief depending on how long you've been arguing about the same thing. The research is equally clear that your relationships are the single greatest predictor of a happy life. You're not here to fix your partner or be fixed. You're here to stop having the same fight like strangers and start having it like two people who chose each other.
Anxiety, OCD, & Perfectionism
Anxiety, OCD, & Perfectionism
Anxiety, OCD, & Perfectionism
Your anxiety is a smoke detector going off at burnt toast. You don't need it gone, but you need it calibrated. I completed a two-year fellowship in CBT, ACT, ERP, and ICBT and work especially well with thought-based OCD (moral, harm, relationship) and with people who are exceptional at everything except convincing their brain to stand do
Your anxiety is a smoke detector going off at burnt toast. You don't need it gone, but you need it calibrated. I completed a two-year fellowship in CBT, ACT, ERP, and ICBT and work especially well with thought-based OCD (moral, harm, relationship) and with people who are exceptional at everything except convincing their brain to stand down. The person I work best with shows up in my office having already read every book about anxiety, understood it completely on an intellectual level, and is still somehow having a panic attack in the Trader Joe's parking lot.
First Responders & Spouses
Anxiety, OCD, & Perfectionism
First Responders & Spouses
I spent ifteen years in an emergency room before I became a therapist. When you tell me about your bad day I already know what that means. I'm not going to flinch, ask you to explain the acronyms, or suggest deep breathing. What I hear most from first responders is some version of nobody gets it. Your partner doesn't get it. Your civilian
I spent ifteen years in an emergency room before I became a therapist. When you tell me about your bad day I already know what that means. I'm not going to flinch, ask you to explain the acronyms, or suggest deep breathing. What I hear most from first responders is some version of nobody gets it. Your partner doesn't get it. Your civilian friends don't get it. You've gotten so good at compartmentalizing you're not sure you get it anymore either. Therapy here is practical, direct, and has enough humor to make the shitty stuff survivable..
Trauma & Relational Trauma
Anxiety, OCD, & Perfectionism
First Responders & Spouses
Not all trauma looks like trauma. Some of it is paper cuts, small relational wounds that seem minor and invisible to everyone around you, that accumulate until your nervous system is running a threat level that doesn't match your actual life. Your brain is a pattern-making machine, and when something bad happens it files it under danger a
Not all trauma looks like trauma. Some of it is paper cuts, small relational wounds that seem minor and invisible to everyone around you, that accumulate until your nervous system is running a threat level that doesn't match your actual life. Your brain is a pattern-making machine, and when something bad happens it files it under danger and then spends years finding matches with questionable accuracy. A certain tone of voice. Someone leaving a room too quickly. A text that takes too long. We figure out what's in the file, why it's there, and start building something different.