Specialties

Effective therapy starts with expertise, not just good intentions. Rather than taking a generalist or “eclectic” approach, I've concentrated my clinical training and experience on a specific set of concerns. This means when you come to me with one of the following, you're working with someone who has genuinely specialized in it, not someone treating it as one topic among many.

Most of my clients are navigating one or more of the following:

  • Maybe you've never been formally diagnosed. Maybe you've wondered, quietly, whether what you're experiencing even counts as OCD, or told yourself it's "probably just anxiety" or "probably just overthinking." That uncertainty is common, and it doesn't mean what you're going through isn't real.

    If your mind gets stuck on the same worry no matter how many times you've thought it through... if you find yourself checking, reviewing, or seeking reassurance and the relief never quite lasts... if certain thoughts feel disturbing or urgent in a way you can't just "let go of,” these patterns are worth taking seriously, whether or not you've ever had a formal diagnosis.

    OCD often attaches to whatever matters most to you, the safety of people you love, your sense of being a good or moral person, your health, your relationships, your responsibilities. Because the thoughts feel so specific and urgent, it can be genuinely hard to tell where normal worry ends and OCD begins. That's not a sign you're overreacting. It's actually one of the more common ways OCD shows up.

  • Maybe your anxiety doesn't fit into one neat category. It's not just social anxiety, or just health anxiety, or just general worry, it's some combination that shifts depending on the day! One week it's a racing heart before a work presentation. The next it's spiraling over a strange symptom you Googled at 2am. The week after that, it's lying awake, replaying something you said at dinner.

    If you've ever felt like your anxiety doesn't match the descriptions you find online, because you have a little bit of everything, or because it moves around depending on what's happening in your life, that's actually incredibly common, and there's a name for it: complex or co-occurring anxiety. It simply means more than one anxiety pattern is active at once, often reinforcing each other.

  • Maybe nothing in your life looks like "trauma" from the outside. There was no single terrible event, no clear before-and-after. Instead, there was a slow accumulation, growing up with a parent whose moods you had to track, relationships where you learned to stay small or agreeable to keep the peace, or years of feeling like your needs were an inconvenience. This is often called relational or complex trauma, and it can be just as impactful as a single traumatic event, even without a clear incident to point to.

    If you've ever thought "I don't have a right to call this trauma, nothing that bad happened to me," that thought is itself incredibly common among people carrying relational trauma — and it's usually a symptom, not an accurate assessment.

Services

The modalities below form the foundation of the conceptualization, tools, and approaches I draw on with clients. The specific combination is shaped by our initial intake assessment and collaborative treatment planning. I often blend modalities to tailor treatment, since everyone brings something unique to the process.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT helps you build a different relationship with difficult thoughts and feelings, one rooted in psychological flexibility rather than avoidance. Rather than working to eliminate distress, ACT focuses on clarifying what matters most to you and learning to move toward it, even in the presence of discomfort

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)

ERP is the gold-standard treatment for OCD. It works by gradually and intentionally engaging with feared situations or thoughts without performing the compulsions that temporarily relieve anxiety allowing the nervous system to learn that uncertainty is tolerable.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

EMDR is an evidence-based therapy for processing traumatic memories and their lasting effects on the nervous system. Through a structured protocol involving bilateral stimulation, EMDR helps the brain integrate difficult experiences so they no longer feel as overwhelming or present.

Yoga & Mindfulness

Yogic and somatic practices are integrated into therapy where appropriate, including breath work, body-based awareness, and mindfulness techniques. These practices complement traditional talk therapy by helping clients develop a more attuned, compassionate relationship with their bodies and present-moment experience.