If you are an adult with a history of childhood difficulties including emotional neglect or abuse, violence, or life-threatening experiences, you may be experiencing symptoms such as detaching, a harsh inner critic, anxiety, avoidance and flashbacks, substance abuse, and problems managing emotions. I use a trauma-informed approach to help you better manage experience and feel more acceptance and control. This is a compassionate process which respects your own sense of what you are ready to do, without forcing anything. Trained with the ISSTD, I will use a structural dissociation model, schema therapy, and parts work in addition to helping build coping skills.

I use a combination of schema therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to help you understand the origins of your anxiety and depression, how they are triggered, and how to cope.

If you’re feeling challenges managing your feelings and communication in love relationships or friendships, I use a combination of schema therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to help.

You may be experiencing challenges relating to procrastination, detaching, feeling unclear about what you want, shame or a harsh inner critic, or impulsiveness. You may be facing challenging emotions around issues relating to where you feel you belong in the world. Talking to someone can help make sense of what’s in the way and who you feel you really are, how to find validation, self-acceptance, and self-compassion.

Work in the arts and performance often involves challenges around self-esteem, self-criticism, fear of judgment and rejection, and avoidance. We can unpack what’s happening and focus on step-by-step behavior change to build self-understanding and confidence.

Therapy can help with claiming ownership over who you are as a neurodiverse person with no pathologizing, so you can make room for the real you in the world and address your needs as you understand them. For ADHDers, I can help build organizational and time management skills, which in turn build self-esteem and help with depression. I’m the person in your corner cheering you on. I use a trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming approach. I’m a member of the Therapist Neurodiversity Collective and support their ethics.

Adult survivors of childhood narcissistic abuse face unique trauma and challenges as they find more self-validation; self-talk is a highly effective tool for making this happen.

Popular culture demonizes people with narcissistic traits, while oversimplifying the diagnosis and what it means to have narcissistic traits. I believe people with narcissistic traits motivated to change can benefit from therapy, and that my schema therapy approach offers unique tools for change.