What therapy treatments do I use?
My approach to therapy is nonjudgmental, person-centered, and evidence-based. I utilize tools from a variety of different modalities to best address your needs.
Internal Family
Systems Therapy (IFS)
Focuses on the idea that the mind is made up of different "parts", each with its own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It emphasizes self-compassion, kindness, and innner wisdom.
Dialectical Behavoiral Therapy (DBT)
Focuses on balancing acceptance of one's current emotional state with the need for change, and teaches clients who may struggle with over-control tangible skills to help them recognize and accept their feelings while working to make positive changes.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Focuses on identifying and challenging thoughts, and reframing them in a more balanced and realistic way leading to improved emotional regulation and healthier behaviors.
Radically Open Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (RO-DBT)
A form of DBT, RO-DBT helps clients struggling with emotional regulation learn skills to improve emotional expression, connect with others authentically, and practice radical openness in their relationships.
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
Focuses on identifying, understanding, and processing emotions to foster healing and create stronger, more resilient emotional relationships with yourself and others.
Gottman Therapy with an Attachment Lense
Helps couples improve communication, resolve conflicts, and build emotional intimacy. It draws parallels between relationship dynamics and childhood attachment to one's parental figures. .
“When you were young and experienced traumas or attachment injuries, you didn’t have enough body or mind to protect yourself. Your Self couldn’t protect your parts, so your parts lost trust in your Self as the inner leader. They may even have pushed your Self out of your body and took the hit themselves—they believed they had to take over and protect you and your other parts. But in trying to handle the emergency, they got stuck in that parentified place and carry intense burdens of responsibility and fear, like a parentified child in a family.”
— Richard C. Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy