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Welcome

My approach is to understand you deeply and individualize our work by finding what is most effective for you. We collaborate through an interactive, compassionate exploration that engages your strengths and self-knowledge. As a seasoned therapist, I am trained in a wide range of clinical approaches and techniques that can help you increase your ability to cope and ease your psychological distress. I am mindful of what your needs are and what is realistic for your life-style. Through a warm and reflective environment, we figure out what is most beneficial for your well-being.

I have assisted clients with work-related stress, life-transition difficulties, self-esteem struggles, anxiety, depression and with healing from current and past trauma.

I incorporate the following techniques, as needed, in our work together:

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a mental health treatment technique. EMDR’s goal is to help you heal from trauma or other distressing life experiences. When you undergo EMDR, which employs eye movements and guided instructions, this structured method helps you neurologically reconfigure the emotional charge of a negative event. Remembering what happened to you will no longer feel like you are reliving it and the related feelings will be much more manageable.

  • Originally developed as an addition to the preparation phase of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), FT has been demonstrated to be effective on its own in reducing the disturbance level painful memories. Like EMDR, FT utilizes specific eye movements and alternating tapping to resolve painful memories. The memory becomes a recollection with the emotional charge greatly reduced.

  • Imagery is a technique in which a person visualizes positive images or scenarios in their mind. During imagery therapy, a person uses all their senses in their imagination to help relax the body and develop a sense of well-being. It can also be used to mentally rehearse new behaviors to assist their implementation in real-life situations.

  • Mindfulness is the heightened awareness of one’s internal states and surroundings. By practicing how to observe one's thoughts, emotions, and other present-moment experiences without judging, mindfulness can help people avoid unproductive and automatic habits and responses by learning to pause and reflect beforehand.

  • The focus of positive psychology is to enhance wellbeing by exploring what makes life worth living, emphasizing strengths, virtues and positive experiences. The goal is the creation of a satisfying life f illed with meaning, pleasure, engagement, positive relationships and accomplishment.

  • CBT emphasizes what is going on in the person’s current life, rather than what has led up to their difficulties. The focus is primarily on moving forward by developing more effective ways of coping. In CBT, you identify and challenge negative or unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and learn strategies to promote more positive and adaptive ones.

Please contact me if you think I can be helpful to you. My practice is solely teletherapy; I use a HIPAA compliant Zoom link for sessions. I look forward to meeting you and exploring what you wish to change. I offer an initial free half hour phone consultation.