Hello! Thanks for visiting my page. I'm a licensed clinical social worker and sole practitioner. I specialize in trauma-focused therapy for adults and children using clinically-proven, evidenced based therapy. I use a multi faceted clinical focus when working with my clients, that includes a trauma informed, relational-developmental and attachment based lens. It is critical that we understand and heal our past, in order to understand our present and to create a healthier future for ourselves and loved ones.

This three pronged approach is foundational construct with EMDR [Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing] work as well. As an EMDR Certified Therapist, I help clients reprocess past traumas that may be interfering with their lives, relationships and overall functioning. I also incorporate Parts of Self work into the therapeutic process to help you understand and connect to different parts of your identity that may have served you in a protective manner, but can also cause disruption and lack of growth and healing in our lives. Examples of this include "people pleasing," "over self reliance," "emotionally/mentally shutting down." These aspects of your self personality may have helped you tremendously to avoid, diminish or completely shut out painful experiences and feelings as a child. But as an adult, these same protective responses can result in being treated poorly, disrespected, and having your boundaries crossed frequently [people pleasing]. Being overly self reliant might help you to feel independent and safe from having to depend on anyone who might not be reliably available to you, but as an adult it will buffer you from being able to authentically connect in emotionally intimate ways with your partners, friends and family. Shutting down may have been a real life saver, if as a child you had to tolerate a very angry, reactive and unpredictable caregiver, but now it causes you to feel "numb," and lack of joy and connection with yourself and others.