About Me
As a licensed marriage and family therapist, I’m passionate about helping individuals and couples gain insight into behavioral patterns and transform them. I have a deep understanding of the challenges that people face. I hold a M.A. in Counselor Education from New York University, and a M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, CA.
My training involves a psychodynamic approach, along with attachment models of understanding ourselves and the mental worlds in which we live. The ways we’ve held onto our experiences and defined them for ourselves can be problematic, and triggering to say the least.
However, events from our past, and the beliefs formed as a result, don’t have to remain. We can surf through our struggles and lighten the emotional entanglements we engage in. We can begin to challenge our thoughts, feel our true feelings and face our vulnerabilities as self-informed adults, leaving our helpless young parts behind. More ease can be felt – more lightness as we go along.
Taking what I’ve learned to support others feels natural to me – to facilitate one’s growth and to break free from limitations. You don’t have to do it alone.
About Therapy
The therapeutic relationship can provide safety and a sense of comfort. When you feel safe, it becomes easier to face uncomfortable feelings, feelings you’d otherwise push aside or deny exist.
Being supported helps you move through this process with more courage and curiosity.
Authenticity
Somewhere inside you, there’s a deep need to align your behaviors with your core values and beliefs, with your self-worth and standards.
Yet you’re afraid that people will judge you and criticize you, that I may even judge you and criticize you. There’s skepticism that you’ll connect with me or that I’ll even understand you.
All of those feelings are expected and normal. Taking the first steps will ensure whether you’re in the right place or not.
Trust
If you’ve never experienced therapy, doubts about whether this is for you is common.
Questions about whether you can grow or heal, stop you from considering the possibilities of what therapy can do for you.
Therapy can support your ability to be present and show up for yourself in a way that’s different from your past.
We’ll identify behaviors stemming from your pain and help you align with actions coming from your worth.
Life calls for different versions as we go along. Which version is calling you to BE?
