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Relationships exist in almost every facet of life, whether they are romantic, friendship, work and school related, or through recreational activities. It can be confusing and disorienting to not have the impact we were expecting in those relationships or achieve the level of intimacy we are hoping for (or not hoping for). Being able to better understand your feelings, wants and needs allows you to be more clear and confident with yourself and others in achieving the desired relationships you not only want, but deserve. Exploring patterns of people-pleasing, triggering events, and other behaviors that cause there to be an undesired effect is one of the most rewarding issues to work through in therapy.

With ERP, which is used to work through phobias and intense fears, we work together to slowly and compassionately identify and confront the thoughts and situations that create anxiety and learn through controlled and smaller exposures to build trust within yourself that, when triggered, your mind and body can come back to homeostasis naturally, by widening your window of tolerance.

Often, using parts work informed by the work of Richard Schwartz and Internal Family Systems research, helps in accessing information about ourselves that traditional methods may have difficulty achieving. Parts work also allows you to gain knowledge about your body and how it connects to your mind. You may learn how different parts of yourself showed up at different times in your life, and how those parts now serve you, negatively and positively, and how to integrate your parts into a more cohesive and beneficial system that acts in a way that aligns with your relational and life values. 

The goal of exploring your financial well-being is to learn how finances intertwine with other aspects of your emotional and relational life. Instances that we would use financial therapy is in cases such as: suspected financial abuse by a spouse of family member, processing the death of a loved one through their will and the outcomes, identifying and working through old money scripts, managing shame cycles around having more money than you have in the past through promotions, family wealth transfers, or entering a career with a large starting salary. There are many other ways financially therapeutic interventions can help alleviate anxiety and other feelings regarding money.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy teaches us how to hold two opposing truths at the same time and is design to provide skills for regulating intense emotions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy allows us to explore your own self-talk around events and decide whether certain events need to be acted on, to be accepted and if behavioral changes need to be made. I use a method that is informed by both of these research-based schools of thought to build help you build trust in yourself and your ability to be less reactive and create more self-compassion.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is most well known for it's work with PTSD symptoms and other emotionally disturbing memories that you may need to work through. The therapy is often brief, 3-6 sessions on average and a very efficient way to process traumatic events that were unable to be processed when they happened.