How I Can Help
Parenting & Family Life
Parenting can be a profound source of joy, stress, anger, confusion, grief, and shame. I partner with parents to work through their experiences as they encounter behavioral challenges, illnesses, relational tensions, co-parenting stressors, and inevitable conflicts and relational stressors. As a licensed school psychologist, I'm also well-equipped to help families figure out how to navigate the challenges, emotions, and practicalities of working with schools.
Health, Pain, & Illness
Sometimes bodies do things that feel like betrayal, not working or looking the way they once did and forcing us to adjust to new routines, sensations, capacities, obligations, and expectations. I bring extensive experience partnering with medical teams to support individuals and families through illness, chronic pain, and health changes‚ with specialized work in diabetes, functional symptoms, oncology, body image, weight management, medical trauma, and grief.
Anxiety
Worry has an important purpose, but when it grows too big or shows up too often, it strains relationships and gets in the way of living life in satisfying ways. My approach to anxiety focuses on identifying where worry is showing up, deciding how much power it gets to have, moving worry outside of the self, and allowing you to respond to worry more effectively. My goal is to help you reduce the distress worry causes and recapture your life. My approach to anxiety includes specialized training in Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE), an evidence-based approach for treating childhood anxiety through parent-based intervention.
Thriving on Paper
Sometimes those who most appear to have it “together” are also those struggling the most, with their successes leaving them feeling undeserving of help or confused by their feelings of loneliness, detachment, or dissatisfaction with life. I work with high-functioning individuals struggling with vulnerability, anxiety, expressing their needs and feelings, setting boundaries, people pleasing, and connecting in satisfying and meaningful ways with others. Working together we can gently look at the capable self that allows them to thrive on paper, but who may have lost touch with their own wants, needs, and core sense of self.