Therapy services
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INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
50-minute sessions rooted in evidence-based interventions. We will collaboratively discuss and implement a treatment plan informed by your goals, preferences, and our shared conceptualization of your challenges.
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COUPLES THERAPY
60-minute sessions grounded in Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT) and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help you improve communication, increase connection, and move through life transitions as a team.
What to expect
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Therapy is a vulnerable process, and I believe that finding a therapist you can build a genuine, comfortable, and trusting relationship with is crucial to successful treatment.
This can be hard to assess online, so our work together will begin with a free 20-minute phone consultation to help you get a feel for whether I may be the right fit for you.
During this call, we will discuss my approach to treatment, what you are hoping to address in therapy, and decide whether we think we are good fit to work together. -
If we decide to move forward, our treatment will begin with a thorough assessment of your key challenges, symptoms, and goals.
This may take between 1 and 4 sessions.
During this time, we will collaboratively develop a treatment plan that we agree is a good fit for your needs, preferences, and our shared understanding of your difficulties. -
Our ongoing therapy sessions will focus on exploring the roots of your current challenges and building evidence-based strategies to help you overcome them.
During each session, you can expect space to discuss and process what has happened between sessions, as well as time dedicated to learning new skills and perspectives that will help you make progress toward your goals.
You can also expect between-sessions assignments that will help you apply what you are learning in therapy to real-life situations.
My approach to therapy is active, goal-oriented, compassionate, and collaborative.
I strive to build warm, genuine relationships with each of my clients, and work to understand how each person’s unique cultural identities, values, life experiences, and ongoing stressors contribute to their distress. -
Throughout treatment, we will monitor progress toward your therapy goals. As you get closer to your goals, we will collaboratively discuss when we think it is time for you to graduate from therapy!
We may do this by setting a date to end our weekly sessions, or we may begin to decrease session frequency as we approach graduation.
At graduation, we will conclude our regular therapy sessions. You will feel equipped with new skills and perspectives and confident in your ability to carry these forward independently! -
At graduation, many clients are ready to conclude therapy sessions entirely so that they can continue their progress independently.
Others prefer to stay in touch with periodic "booster sessions" or as-needed check-ins (e.g. once every couple of months). I am happy to work with you to create a graduation plan that fits with your needs.
Specialty areas
Perinatal & Maternal Mental Health
Concerns related to fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and new motherhood, such as anxiety, low mood, identity exploration, relationship difficulties, burnout, perfectionism, boundary-setting, and mental load.
Anxiety
Anxiety disorders including Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Specific Phobias, and related challenges such as stress, perfectionism, burnout, and people-pleasing.
Mood
Depression and related challenges such as decreased mood, motivation, enjoyment, and self-esteem.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD, as well as body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) like skin-picking and hair-pulling.
RElationship Difficulties
Individual and couple therapy to address relationship challenges such as communication, resentment, and navigating life transitions as a couple.
Identity Development
Exploration and rediscovery of your identities, values, and goals when you are feeling stuck, unmotivated, or unsure.
Therapeutic Approaches
In our initial sessions together, we will work collaboratively to develop a treatment plan based on your goals and our shared understanding of your current key challenges. This plan will include components of the following on evidence-based treatments:
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With its focus on enhancing quality of life, ACT helps you stop struggling against your thoughts and feelings so that they no longer get in the way of doing the things that make your life feel full, rich, and meaningful.
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CBT examines the way your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and physiological sensations interact with one another to contribute to your distress. You will build skills in each of these domains so that you can disrupt distress cycles when they arise.
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ERP is a behavioral therapy for OCD and anxiety disorders that involves increasing your exposure to feared situations. It will help you develop more balanced thoughts about your feared situations and enhance your ability to tolerate and accept the discomfort that arises in them.
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Mindfulness-based approaches to therapy focus on helping you recenter yourself in the present moment when you notice that your mind has pulled you to past memories or future worries. This helps you make more effective, values-aligned decisions in the here and now.
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Self-compassion is an evidence-based treatment principle that helps you learn how to treat yourself with the same kindness with which you would treat a loved one. It helps you decrease shame, self-validate your challenging experiences, and take more consistent responsibility for your actions.
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EFT helps couples identify, express, and manage their emotions to foster closer emotional connection between partners. It involves exploring each partner's underlying emotions and needs, and using these to help the couple communicate more clearly and effectively.
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IBCT helps couples interact more effectively and increase their closeness. It emphasizes strategies for change (modifying problematic behaviors) and acceptance (helping partners learn to accept each other's differences) to decrease conflict and enhance connection.
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Other Services
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PODCAST
Join me, my co-host, and our fabulous guest experts as we dive deep into all the motherhood challenges you're struggling with the most. You'll leave each episode with new perspectives and tools that will help you find more peace, joy, fulfillment, and humor through your transition to motherhood.
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Free Resources
I’ve created several free self-guided resources for new moms that are available to download. These include The Complete Mom Guilt Workbook, The Simplifying Self-Care Guide for New Moms, and The Mom Reset 5-Day Challenge to help you feel more like yourself in this chapter.
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WORKSHOPS
I offer workshops, talks, presentations, and trainings on a variety of topics and would love to collaborate with you on developing one-time speaking engagements or a series for your program or organization. Please contact me to discuss how we might work together.
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Courses
My Becoming Mom course is for expecting and postpartum mothers who want to build skills, self-trust, and confidenceas they prepare for and navigate the transition to motherhood. Body Love from Bump to Beyond teaches expecting and new mothers evidence-based skills to improve body image through the body changes that occur during this time.