My Approach
A humanistic, evidence-based approach to psychotherapy, drawing primarily from attachment theory to facilitate the creation of secure, vibrant connection with self and others. Rooted in the science of emotions and attachment, EFT helps clients identify and transform the negative processing and interaction patterns that create distress. It’s effective in treating individuals, couples, and families, addressing a wide range of issues from marital distress to individual anxiety and trauma.
EFT
ACT
An action-oriented therapy that evolved from cognitive behavioral therapy. Rather than avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions, clients learn to accept these deeper feelings as appropriate responses to certain situations that shouldn’t prevent them from finding peace and moving forward in their lives. With this understanding, clients begin to accept their hardships and engage in commitment and action towards living a valued life.
An evidence-based treatment that focuses on helping people to identify thoughts, feelings, and emotions that drive behaviors. I help clients to understand how and why they respond to situations in the ways they do and help them to restructure these cognitive processes so that they can engage with themselves and others with a greater sense of curiosity and resilience. I often infuse principles of mindfulness and compassion into my CBT approach.
CBT
DBT
Psychotherapy with a strong educational component designed to provide skills for managing intense emotions and negotiating social relationships. DBT acknowledges the need for change in a context of acceptance of situations and recognizes the constant flux of feelings—many of them contradictory—without having to get caught up in them. It is continually aimed at balancing opposing forces and investigating the truth of powerful negative emotions.
A type of therapy that helps clients to practice confronting the thoughts, images, objects, and situations that make them anxious and provoke obsessions. Over time, EXRP helps clients to increase their abilities
to tolerate distress and anxiety without engaging in compulsive behaviors and to help them to live more value-driven lives.
