OUR AREAS OF TREATMENT

  Our sessions will explore the situations, behaviors, and negative thoughts that contribute to a depressed mood. By reframing these sources, our goals will be to strengthen interpersonal relationships, increase a sense of confidence, decrease feelings of isolation, carve out space for clearer thinking, reduce pain, experience pleasure, address sleep disruptions, and improve overall health.  

 Anxiety can be all-consuming, often affecting your mind and body’s ability to accomplish basic tasks. Our holistic approach to treating anxiety addresses the physiological, behavioral, and psychological components. We’ll work on developing skills to navigate negative self-talk, low self-esteem, mistaken beliefs, specific phobias, social anxiety, and more spontaneous panic attacks.

  Everyone deserves to be loved and experience sexual pleasure. Together we can help you to recognize patterns and barriers that are preventing you from finding partners that satisfy your wants and needs. We believe that it is healthy to talk openly about sex and desire, and our approach carefully attends to the past experiences that have shaped you and any trauma you may have endured. 

 We offer a safe and judgment-free space to explore elements in your relationship that could be improved. We may address ineffective communication, attachment styles, lingering effects of past relationships, problematic patterns, financial stress, repairing the pain caused by infidelity, rebuilding a sense of trust, and navigating open relationships (if that is your desire). 

  Any traumatic event can negatively affect an individual’s mental health. Our brains can become overwhelmed and incapable of properly processing or “storing” these difficult memories, which can often lead to anxiety, depression, and PTSD. In individual therapy, we will work to better understand the nature of your trauma and the way it affects your quality of life. 

  The path to developing a healthy sense of self-esteem involves a gradual embrace of all of your personal strengths and weaknesses, without subjecting yourself to the cruelty of negative self-talk and shame. Together we will work on strategies to nurture and be kind to yourself, while strengthening networks of support and avenues for intimacy. 

Obsessive thoughts can pull you into an all-encompassing negative spiral. Together we will develop useful skills to shift gears and break free from the  endless loops that block your ability to see the world with a clear perspective. Our treatment approach will involve a combination of relaxation training, cognitive therapy techniques, exposure and response prevention, and lifestyle changes. 

  Navigating career transitions can be a major cause of anxiety. We specialize in working to eliminate procrastination, establish clear goals, identify fulfilling work, and adjust to new professional environments. For students applying to universities (at the graduate or undergraduate level), we can also locate a compelling narrative for personal statements.