Traditional Therapy Hasn’t Worked For You 

That’s because true healing requires more than just talk.

You’re stuck. Frustrated. You’ve spent hundreds if not thousands of dollars on traditional talk therapy and you’ve seen little to no results. Sure, it’s felt nice to be heard and validated by someone. But the spirals of self-doubt, of anger, the volatile arguments with your partner; the gnawing sense of emptiness and aloneness you keep trying to escape from, that anxiety that makes your stomach curdle and your mouth dry—these awful feelings and experiences haven’t really gone away, have they? All the problems you sought help for keep coming back. You’ve all but given up on counseling. It just doesn’t seem to work.

Evidence-based, results-oriented therapy for adults and couples in New York, Maine, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

Verbally hashing out our issues once a week for 45-55 minutes doesn’t always make us feel better. In fact, it can often make us feel WORSE. Too often, therapists and clients alike fall into the trap of rumination, where each fuels and exacerbates the negative emotions and behaviors at the heart of mental health challenges by over-focusing on what’s wrong.

Break free from past trauma with EMDR

Approximately 70% of all people will experience a traumatic event in their lifetime, according to data gathered by the World Health Organization. That means most of us are walking around carrying something that’s shaped our thoughts and behaviors so massively to render verbal processing alone inadequate to fully heal. A more targeted, evidence-based intervention known to rewire the brain is required if we are to get to the heart of the issues plaguing us and liberate ourselves from their hold over our wellbeing. Here’s where eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) comes in.

EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (tapping, eye movements, binaural sounds) to reduce sensitivity to triggers and alter the way traumatic memories are stored in the brain, such that they no longer elicit a debilitating emotional and physical response. EMDR recipients typically report a significant reduction in distress related to traumatic events coupled with a strengthened belief in their own capacity to cope with adversity. What follows? Improved mood, the ability to maintain more secure and healthy relationships, and better sleep. To name just a few positive outcomes…

Manage obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety with exposure and response prevention (ERP) therapy 

There’s no talking your way out of intrusive thoughts and compulsions. To actually reduce the distress you’re experiencing and interrupt the neural pathways in the brain contributing to OCD and anxiety, we have to enhance our tolerance of discomfort and uncertainty—so we can resist the urge to engage in compulsive behaviors and avoidance, and thus weaken the brain patterns holding us hostage. A therapist trained in ERP will support you in identifying your biggest triggers and fears, teaching you and making sure you’ve gotten down to a T nervous system regulation techniques that help you weather and reduce anxiety and panic, then gradually support you in facing those feared things anxiety and OCD have convinced you you can’t handle. End result? Your anxiety plummets, you can tolerate the occasional presence of intrusive thoughts without letting them rule you, and you can get back to living the life you always wanted to.

Reclaim your relationships through evidence-based couples therapy

The animosity between you and your partner has reached a tipping point. You aren’t sure if the two of you will make it together much longer. Prior counseling has only gotten you so far. The fights die down for a bit only to flare up the second something seemingly insignificant transpires—a partner’s failure to respond to a text; a sink full of dishes; one of you being ten minutes late again. You’re back to square one and you can’t remember a time your partner thought fondly of you. Nor can you remember a time where you could easily give your partner the benefit of the doubt.

Learning the research backed communication techniques from famed couples therapists John and Julie Gottman and working with a therapist trained in their evidence based approach to couples work to deepen your understanding of your and your partner’s inner world—and why you’re so triggered by each other all the time—can rescue your relationship from the brink of breakup or divorce. Make fights more productive, regain that sense of trust you once had with your partner, and hone the communication and self-awareness skills that keep you and your partner from spiraling into negative, accusatory cycles of blame, defensiveness, stonewalling, and contempt.

Lower anxiety and get better sleep with somatic interventions, CBT-i, and mindfulness

The mere thought of getting into bed spikes your anxiety as your mind floods with too many memories of all the nights you haven’t been able to sleep. Sure, you fall asleep, but you find yourself wide awake at 3am worrying about all the obligations you have on your plate. You ruminate about the mistakes you’ve made and forecast into the future how you’ll never be able to handle the weeks, months, and years ahead. Everything that’s wrong in your life gets so much louder the moment you try to close your eyes again.

It’s time to learn ways to rewire your brain so you can fall back and stay asleep. Strategies that regulate your circadian clock and help you mitigate stress levels so a good night’s rest gets back within reach. Think: cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, mindfulness, and emotional release techniques. I work with clients of all ages to regulate their nervous systems, come nighttime, improve their sleep hygiene, and reset their body clocks so that a solid 6 to 8 hours of Z’s is once again a regular reality.

Stop hating yourself and find joy again through cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and behavioral activation

Life seems duller than it once was. Things that brought you joy don’t anymore. Self-loathing has become a constant state of existence. It’s hard to explain this to other people. You’re ashamed most of the time. You’ve talked about it a bit in the past but didn’t get the relief you were hoping for.

You need to restructure the automatic negative thoughts you have about yourself. The ones that tell you you’re a failure. That you’re not loveable. That something’s irreparably broken inside of you.

This is what CBT does. We’re going to take a look at the negative thoughts and beliefs you have about yourself, how they engender negative feelings, and negative behaviors. We’re going to find evidence that disproves them. Engage you in behavioral activation to spark motivation and tap into that energy you once had that’s been totally drained from you. And we’re going to help you practice new skills to step back from thoughts that may feel very real but in actuality are not in the least bit true.

You are more capable than you think

Our brains are changeable. That’s why neuroscientists call them “plastic” or refer to them as having “plasticity.” No matter what you’ve gone through. How low your self-esteem is. How many failures you believe you’ve walked yourself right into. The strength that addictions to porn, alcohol, marijuana, food, sex, or any other dopamine-boosting activity or substance may hold over you. You can develop the critical neural infrastructure that builds better thought patterns (think: “I’ve got this” and “I trust myself to be okay” versus “I’m a total idiot” or “I’m never going to find anyone”), habits (like decent sleep hygiene, diet and exercise—to name just a few), better relationships, better emotion regulation (imagine working WITH anxiety and panic, not crumbling underneath their weight), and greater motivation and drive (wouldn’t it be nice to find ways around those obstacles that keep you paralyzed and to NOT procrastinate on everything from dashing off a simple email response to meeting a major work deadline?).

You don’t have to be perfect in order to become the best version of yourself. 

I would love to help you believe in yourself more. I would love to help you learn the strategies that will enable you to live a more satisfied, healthier, confident life, unburdened by excessive fear, overwhelming sadness or grief, panic and anxiety, and massive self-doubt. 

You are so much more capable than you might think right now.

Let’s talk about how we can work together. To get you to a place you maybe haven’t gotten to yet. To introduce you to some of the science-based strategies proven to regulate mood, get your sleep back on track, and manage the symptoms of whatever mental health diagnosis you may or may not meet the criteria for.

I can’t want to hear from you.

PS - here’s some research about brain changes wrought by all the modalities I’m trained in, if you’d like to take a deeper dive into the evidence:

CBT

 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2893580

EMDR

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7839656

ACT

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7892587

ERP

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3866622/

DBT

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5915238