Therapy is a journey.
In session, we focus on your strengths and then work on enhancing them. You’ll be able to tackle fears, anxiety, and depression. We’ll work on overcoming bad habits and building better communication.
You’ll learn about boundaries, their importance, and how to create them with others.
Sometimes, we look back to events from the past and process them in a calm body to remove the feeling of panic and doom that accompanies these memories. Don’t worry – this process doesn’t have to be scary.
The work is never forced and always on your schedule.
The approach is specific to YOUR needs.
Therapy often includes Mindfulness Training or somatic exercises like paced breathing exercises and progressive muscle relaxation to add skills and tools to your Therapy Tool Kit. We find what skills work for you and design a self-care plan.
After therapy, you will experience balance in yourself and with each other. You will encounter fewer arguments with loved ones, and experience increased self-worth and confidence. You will learn to set healthy boundaries. Your relationships will become more gratifying and stable over time.
Our sessions cater to what you need on that particular day and time. Sometimes, sessions are more task-oriented, and we utilize a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy or Dialectal Behavior Therapy approach.
On other days, our sessions may be more conversational. Working with me, you will feel relaxed and supported – and free to be authentic. Sometimes, we even use salty language.
About Me
Personal experience and training guide my approach.
I am a childhood trauma survivor, and my family experienced the love and healing power of therapy as children and teens. Having struggled with my mental health issues in the past, I speak from a place of experience since I, too, have sat in my client’s seat on the therapist’s couch.
My passion is helping people recover from past traumas, find strengths they didn’t know they had, and heal from past experiences. I believe in treating the entire individual, including mind, body, soul, and spirit. I think therapy has become more of a household name, and I am passionate about breaking down barriers to therapy and mental health stigmas that persist today.
I am an LCSW licensed in New York State. I studied Psychology at the University of NY at Stony Brook and completed my master’s at the Stony Brook School of Social Welfare in 2004.
In my 20-year career, I have worked with families, adolescents, and adults with an emphasis on mental health and substance use disorder, helping families and individuals recover from addiction. My focus has evolved, and I now love individual therapy and trauma work.
In my spare time…
…my family enjoys boating, yoga, going to the beach, having our dogs, playing and watching sports, and being outdoors.
I am a parent of two teenage boys.