Integrative therapy including an array of proven effective therapies to help you to break free from the limiting beliefs, behaviors and patterns that have held you back. By integrating a blend of therapies such as dialog, EMDR® (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Brainspotting®, guided imagery, experiential exercises, body awareness and mindfulness and others, we are able to create a program that accesses your own inherent healing abilities that can make real internal changes. I work with you to achieve the deep, real internal changes that release you from old patterns and perceived personal limitations. I have been in practice over 25 years and have a lifetime of my own experience, challenges and triumphs, to guide my work with you. I work with anxiety, depression and grief, traumatic stress disorders (e.g., PTSD), life transitions and performance enhancement issues. I see these “disorders” as symptoms of familiar, but now ineffective, patterns of thinking, believing and ways of being. I have found that most of these problems emerge from either old trauma experiences that added something into your life that you didn't want or need OR developmental deficits, not getting something that you did want or need, which prevented you from knowing your full potential. Now is the time to release that which is no longer helpful or life enhancing and to restore what is right for you. It is my goal to see beyond the appearances of limitation and to see what we know to be the truth of who you are…and to work with you to reveal that truth. I am always amazed and inspired by the tenacity, resilience, and inherent beauty of my clients…and I truly look forward to entering into this sacred time with you.

I treat OCD, Trichotillomania, Dermatillomania, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Hoarding, Tics, Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma (using EMDR) in adults, children, and adolescents. I have taken all advanced training offered by the International OCD Foundation to train therapists to CORRECTLY treat the OCD spectrum of disorders. I have attended 6 Annual OCD conferences and have been trained at these conferences by the foremost researchers, professors, and authors of the OCD books written in the past 25 years. I use the Evidence-Based treatment of Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) to treat OCD. It is my greatest joy to watch my patients improve as a result of using the evidence-based treatments that I have been thoroughly trained in. Many people struggling with OCD who come to my practice have often seen 5-15 providers who claim they know how to treat OCD, but in fact they do not know how to treat using ERP, and the person is still struggling. This is due to the fact that ALTHOUGH OCD IS AN ANXIETY-RELATED DISORDER, IT IS NOT TREATED THE SAME WAY AS WE TREAT OTHER ANXIETY. INSTEAD, A THERAPIST THOROUGHLY TRAINED IN ERP IS REQUIRED TO TREAT OCD PROPERLY." It is a chronic illness that is very treatable using ERP.