Specialties
Navigating the complexities of infertility, third-party reproduction, postpartum challenges, or relationship strain can leave you feeling profoundly isolated. It is incredibly painful when well-meaning friends and family can’t provide the depth of support you need. You might feel entirely lost, struggling to recognize your own life or the person you see in the mirror.
My role is to help you safely process these heavy emotions and build a path toward thriving. I believe in an integrative, whole-person approach to therapy—honoring the vital connection between your mind, body, and spirit.
To give you the highest quality of personalized care, I draw from a diverse foundation of advanced, evidence-based therapies, including:
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO) to explore inner conflicts and transform relationship dynamics.
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) & Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) to heal attachment wounds and improve communication.
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Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) & Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to gently process trauma and regulate your nervous system.
Infertility
The infertility rollercoaster can leave you feeling isolated, anxious, and stuck on pause. When the endless waiting and uncertainty consume your energy, it is incredibly difficult to focus on your career, relationships, or joy. I am here to help you steady yourself amidst this turbulence. Together, we will process the grief and stress of this journey, giving you the tools to manage the distress and reclaim your life.
Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders
Society paints motherhood as a fairy tale, but the reality is often much heavier. Pregnancy and postpartum life can trigger overwhelming anxiety, sadness, emptiness, or terrifying intrusive thoughts that leave you feeling disconnected and defective. If this resonates, please know you aren’t failing—you are likely experiencing a common, treatable perinatal mood disorder. You are not alone, and with the right support, you will feel like yourself again.
Third Party Reproduction
Most reproductive endocrinologists require a psychoeducational consultation before starting treatment with an egg, sperm, or embryo donor. I provide these supportive, interactive sessions for individuals and couples, and I will handle the formal written reports required by your clinic so you can move forward without any added stress.
Women’s Issues
As women, we strive to be everything to everyone - except ourselves. We are finally shifting the narrative to recognize that prioritizing your own mental and physical well-being isn't a luxury; it is a necessity. Together, we will build practical self-care rituals and sustainable, healthy habits that protect your energy and allow you to thrive.
Couples Counseling
Healthy relationships require intentional time, effort, and care. We each enter a partnership carrying a personal history shaped by our past experiences, unique family dynamics, and core beliefs. When conflict arises, these hidden blueprints can make it incredibly difficult to communicate effectively or find resolution. Working together, we will explore the root of these disconnects, heal old wounds, and build the foundation for a stronger, healthier relationship.
Approach
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps you make sense of the deep emotions that drive your reactions, relationships, and sense of security. When tension rises, it’s easy to get caught in reactive patterns that leave everyone feeling isolated. By slowing down and exploring these cycles together in a safe space, we can map out what is truly happening beneath the surface. EFT empowers individuals and couples to heal attachment wounds, rebuild trust, and create deeply secure, responsive, and supportive relationships.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS therapy helps you explore the powerful connections between your past experiences and your present patterns of thinking, feeling, and reacting. This evidence-based approach views the mind as a system of distinct "parts"—some that protect us, and others that carry our deepest hurts. By safely acknowledging and healing these inner parts, you can step out of exhausting internal conflicts. IFS empowers you to heal past trauma, cultivate profound self-compassion, and build healthier, more secure connections with the people in your life.
Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO)
Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO) is a compassionate couples therapy approach derived from Internal Family Systems (IFS). IFIO focuses on the idea that our personal, inner "parts"—such as our reactive defenses or vulnerable, wounded spaces—profoundly shape how we interact with our partner. When arguments spin out of control, it is usually our protective parts trying to keep us safe. By exploring these inner dynamics together, IFIO helps you step out of painful cycles and cultivate self-led communication. You will learn how to speak from your heart rather than into conflict, fostering deep mutual compassion and lasting connection.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on thoughts that exist in a person’s unconscious mind. The goal is to find the root cause of the problems. Clients talk about thoughts and feelings that come to mind while the therapist helps identify behavior patterns and feelings that have developed in the unconscious mind. Once these thoughts and behaviors are identified, the therapist helps the client understand how the patterns affect their life and help them develop healthy coping skills.
Interpersonal Therapy
Interpersonal therapy is a time limited model (12-16 weeks) that focuses on a person’s relationships. IPT is based on the belief that a person’s mental health improves when they strengthen the relationships with the people in their life; when they build a support system.
IPT focuses on the present situation. Past experiences are discussed, but are not the main focus. The therapist helps the patient identify sources of their emotions and develop ways to better express them. A large part of IPT is teaching communication skills that assist in building relationships, developing stronger social support, and increasing confidence.
Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
ART is a type of therapy with specific steps, techniques, and protocols that are followed to address various problems and symptoms. ART works directly to change the ways distressing memories and images are stored in the brain so they do not trigger strong physical and emotional reactions. ART does this through the use of rapid eye movements similar to eye movements that occur during the dream stage of sleep. ART uses a technique called Voluntary Memory/Image Replacement, where distressing, images are replaced with calming images. It is not necessary to discuss the trauma in this process. The goal of ART is to eliminate or reduce the physical and/or emotional reactions to traumatic memories.
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Mindfulness is an evidence and experience based therapy. It focuses on being present and in the moment; aware of our surroundings and observing our thoughts and feelings without judgment. Mindfulness is about living in the moment, not dwelling on the past or worrying about the future. It can reduce stress and anxiety, decrease depressive symptoms and increase insight and awareness of ourselves and those around us. Mindfulness can be transformative; it allows us to see our thoughts and emotions as just thoughts and emotions, not absolute truths. We begin to realize that although an emotion may be distressing, it is temporary, it does not define us, and it will pass. In mindfulness we stop identifying with the thoughts and emotions, and our mind stops being in control of strong feelings and thoughts.
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