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As a parent, I understand the difficulties, stressors, and anxieties that come with parenthood. I am passionate about helping parents who are struggling with anxiety, postpartum depression, parenting struggles, and infertility. I also work with individuals who are struggling with depression and anxiety due to life transitions and changes.

Facing our present world is a lot! This on top of managing the daily challenges of relationships, finances, and work. I offer a unique kind of time and space where you can slow down and examine the identities and narratives that shape your life. I am an active listener who gives constructive feedback to help you reach your goals. I invite you to recognize your strengths and apply them to the parts of your life that may need growth. My clients are facing life transitions, relationship challenges, struggles with romance, new parenthood, as well as many other mental health needs.

I am a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Perfectionism, and Anxiety Disorders. I have expertise in and passion for treating Purely Obsessional subtypes of OCD. I received extensive training from an internationally-renowned expert on Pure-O and OCD and gained significant experience using Exposure & Response Prevention to treat OCD, anxiety, and Pure-O in both national and international populations. I work with clients to build creative, individualized treatment plans that incorporate research-based methods, and take into account a client’s unique needs, circumstances, culture, & values.

In my twenties, I saw a therapist who was completely silent (the traditional way) and wasn’t helpful at all. Then I saw another who was intellectually and emotionally “there” and changed my life. He inspired me to become a psychotherapist and to practice in a collaborative way that lands with my patients.

I practice with a direct and compassionate focus on therapy; providing a safe, welcoming environment that allows for intimate therapeutic communication where trust and confidence come easily and naturally. Having been trained in psychoanalysis, I also incorporate CBT, ACT, narrative therapy and mindfulness to my practice. I am certified in EMDR and DBT as well as CSTIP (Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional).

As a relational therapist, I am deeply passionate to support individuals, families, and couples as they navigate life transitions and different experiences that impact connection with oneself and/or with one another. I strongly believe in the power of resilience (capacity to recover from any impact) and finding growth in the midst of challenges. I also believe, that sometimes finding the openings for growth are not so visible or accessible to our perception and therapy can support expanding that vision.

Are you tired of feeling stuck? Would you like to feel calmer, more content and connected in your relationships? Together, we can work on identifying repetitive patterns that are keeping you stuck and explore how your thoughts and feelings are influencing your behavior. When you better understand yourself and your own emotions, you can effectively communicate what you want and need from others. You can break old patterns that do not serve you and find new ways to be in the world.

The collective grief of the pandemic has left us facing anxiety and pain we may have already been managing before, but it's now magnified by the loss of so much of what we remember having. Emerging feelings can include grief, depression, relationship issues, parenting stress, and even anger. This can leave us feeling isolated and alone as we struggle to wade through the difficulties of our new every day.

My goal as your therapist is to help you explore how your past experiences are impacting your present and create a lasting shift that improves the way you live your life. I strive to create a sense of safety that will allow us to explore your inner world together. Guided by genuine curiosity, empathy, and open-mindedness, I work to create a relationship in which you can share your most difficult feelings. I draw on my extensive training and over twelve years of experience while always remembering that you are your own expert.

Maybe you struggle with relationships. You may feel that your life lacks direction or that something is missing, but you're not sure what it is. Maybe your mood or worry has gotten in the way of reaching out. I offer a collaborative environment where we explore the past and present with our focus firmly on the future. This can help better understand and revise patterns in your life that cause distress. I have worked with people who struggled with substance abuse/misuse, depression, anxiety, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, major life transitions, creative blocks,identity issues, and parenting difficulties.

Congratulations on taking this step in seeking help and support for yourself or your family. I work with children and adolescents, families, men, and women. My 20-plus years of clinical work with children and families is built on an attachment-oriented foundation and is informed by my personal experience as an adoptive parent and training in relevant play and family therapies. Regardless of a child’s emotional/behavioral presentation or attachment (RAD) history, I view parents as partners in their child’s therapeutic process and support and guide them, in parent sessions and/or in family sessions with their child.

I am committed to creating a therapeutic relationship that feels safe, supportive and is based on mutual respect. In sessions, my general style is to be interactive and direct, but I also emphasize very close listening. The goals of my interventions vary depending on your evolving struggles, needs and strengths. Together, we work to understand the multi-layered nature of the problem(s) and to find ways to improve your life and alleviate distress.

Feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, stress, or relationship challenges? Perhaps you're grappling with the demands of parenting, trauma, or OCD. Whatever your circumstances, you deserve to feel understood, empowered, and guided towards greater well-being. At Expressive Connections, our team of compassionate therapists provides a nurturing environment where you can explore your emotions, gain insights, and develop effective coping strategies.

There is nothing wrong with you for feeling afraid, anxious, depressed, angry, depleted of energy, numb, lost, and confused. In fact, your courage and your willingness to be vulnerable are what make you resilient. Your body is responding to its environment, and that’s normal. It is sending you messages and we are going to decipher those messages together. Be so kind to yourself as you are about to embark on a journey of self-discovery and healing.

Our therapists are skilled mental health professionals who are committed to supporting people through life's most challenging times. With compassion, we specialize in helping individuals navigate relationship challenges, family and parenting issues, struggles with school and career, depression, anxiety, stress, loss, and life changes. We love working with people from different stages in life. Our clients range from tweens and teens to young adults to persons in mid-life and beyond. Our core belief is that humans are resilient and adaptive. We help you to make changes to improve your life, your relationships, and your well-being.

My goal is to foster a collaborative environment to explore areas of your life where you may feel challenged, anxious and/or stuck, and to create new understandings that lead to curiosity, self-awareness, and self-compassion. Through this exploration we will identify old patterns of behavior and beliefs that have been limiting you and begin to move forward in your life. Therapy can be a wonderful opportunity to expand your self-awareness, have better communication and more satisfaction.

I approach my clients from a place of empathy and compassion for the issues that have led them to seek support. In a safe, transparent, and non-judgmental way, I collaborate with them to better understand how past experiences and relationships are informing and influencing the present. I have experience working with individuals, couples, and families around conflict in communication, anxiety and depression, parenting issues, reproductive challenges, coping with loss, and a variety of other issues and challenges that arise in our everyday lives.

Adulting and parenting; the struggle is REAL. You feel like you should have it all together but feel that you are overwhelmed, falling behind and not enough. Family, friendship and intimate partner relationships can be challenging. Career burnout and perfectionism can make it difficult to find a sustained sense of accomplishment, acceptance and joy. Parenting/caregiving is a rollercoaster of emotions, the ultimate balancing act and not showing up the way you want. Transitions are hard and navigating your 20s-30s is more stressful and rocky than you expected. You want to make a change but not sure where to start. Change is possible.

With over a decade of experience as a social worker, I utilize a compassionate therapeutic approach to create a safe and supportive space for people of all life stages that want personal growth, emotional well-being, and relationship success. My practice has a strong focus on families, parents and children looking for support managing developmental, behavioral and emotional needs. I also draw on this expertise as a foundation in my work with individuals - after all – we were all children once and our original family systems have a profound impact on how we manage life stressors, navigate trauma, and function in relationships.