Specialties, Expertise, Approach
My mother, a healthcare provider, instilled in me the importance of helping others. At age 13, I knew that I wanted to be a psychologist. And as a teenage girl, I began to understand how unhealthy expectations and pressures can negatively impact identity, development, and the relationships you have with others as well as yourself. While my training and experience has provided a wide range of competencies, my primary passion continues to focus on helping adolescents and adults struggling with...
• EATING DISORDERS
• TRAUMA
• OCD OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDERS
• ANXIETY
• DEPRESSION
• BODY IMAGE
• BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDERS
• INTERPERSONAL DIFFICULTIES
MY APPROACH ~
- AS A CLINICIAN ~ I value collaboration, transparency, and honesty in the therapeutic relationship. I believe that these qualities allow treatment to be both challenging and supportive, nurturing and empowering.
- AS A PROVIDER ~ I believe in the importance of utilizing evidence-based interventions specific to presenting difficulties and disorders. While treatment approaches are determined by the needs of the individual, I commonly employ cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral, radically open, exposure-based, and acceptance-based techniques.