In therapy, it’s important to feel understood, to work with someone who has life experience, who has been though the process of therapy and can provide you with education and the tools to help you manage your life. I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Education and a Masters Degree in Clinical and Counseling Psychology. My education coupled with my diverse career experience prior to being a therapist (which includes working as an educator, trainer, manager and director of operations in the tech, pharma, and logistics fields), provides me with poignant insight and helps me to understand the challenges my clients face in today’s fast-paced, high stress, work environment.
As someone who benefitted from therapy at all stages of my life, I was passionate about my dream of becoming a therapist and helping adults and pre-teens/adolescents through therapy. To that end, I began my career working with people of all ages in out-patient and in-patient settings that addressed mental health and co-occurring mental health and addiction concerns. I worked with women in group therapy to provide support for women's concerns across the lifespan as well as education and management of the physical and mental symptoms of menopause. I treated many clients who experienced trauma, both in childhood and adulthood, and began studying healing from the effects of Narcissistic Abuse. Working with adults to address anxiety, depression, grief, attachment, relationship and addiction concerns, I began to notice that those of us working in the caring professions need specialized support to address compassion fatigue and burnout, as we tend to be empaths who acutely feel the pain of others in addition to our own.
My passion for working with adolescents began when I ran my first Intensive Out-Patient (IOP) program for adolescents with co-occurring mental health and addiction concerns. This led me to start an IOP for adolescents with mental health concerns while continuing to work with adults in the IOP and out-patient setting. I couldn’t decide which I enjoyed more, working with adults or adolescents, and thus I opened my own practice so that I could do both!
I am a practice-what-I-preach therapist and will never ask you to try any technique that I have not used myself and that is not backed by empirical data. I create a safe, caring atmosphere where you can express yourself in a judgment free environment with someone who really cares and is invested in you. I offer warm, compassionate, support with a sense of humor and strive to make your time in therapy enjoyable and something that you look forward to.
