Individual Therapy

Anxiety can feel similar to fear, but many also describe it as a feeling of dread, being on edge, or disproportionate worry. Anxiety is a normal emotion but can become problematic when it interferes with our daily functioning and relationships.

I help clients understand how their anxiety manifests and provide strategies to empower clients to engage differently with their anxiety.

OCD involves obsessive, intrusive thoughts that cause significant distress leading to behaviors to reduce this distress—known as compulsions. Compulsions can be done physically, through avoidance, or inside one’s mind- which is why OCD is commonly misdiagnosed.

I support clients with OCD by increasing insight in how OCD shows up throughout their lives. I help with teaching strategies to help clients’ engage differently with their obsessions and compulsions. I utilize Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) and Inference-Based CBT, along with other modalities for a relational and holistic style of treatment.

Trauma impacts the way we view the world, ourselves, and others. Trauma can be a single event that you experienced or witnessed someone else experience. Trauma can also be from chronic exposure to stress or an unsafe environment. Trauma often leads to avoidance, difficulty connecting with others, feeling easily startled or overwhelmed (hypervigilance), and difficulty regulating emotions.

I utilize Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help clients process trauma and reduce the impact of that trauma. I also use other approaches, both top-down and bottom-up modalities to assist in reducing the conflict of what feels true and what one knows to be true mentally.

Perfectionism can be tricky to recognize because it often serves an individual in positive ways. Some might even attribute their success to their perfectionism.

Whether reinforced by family, relationships, school, or work, perfectionism comes at a cost. The expectation and rigidity around performance that we place on ourselves (and sometimes others) keeps us from connection, trying new things, and living full lives.

I work with clients to help separate their value from their productivity, incorporate self-compassion strategies, and rebel against the system they live within.

Early experiences and relationships shape the ways we show up in relationships. Attachment also informs what feels safe, comfortable, or “normal” in relationships. This impacts how we communicate, what we do to connect with others, how we protect ourselves, and our ability to identify our emotions and needs.

Therapy can be helpful in understanding the lens we bring into our relationships and what is needed for the individual to feel safe while connected to others.

Often times, individual work is helpful prior to (or in conjunction with) doing relationship therapy. I help create a space for individuals to process what change might be needed for them to have more safe and fulfilling relationships.