Areas of Expertise
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Emotional Resilience
Emotional resiliency is the ability to adapt to and recover from stress, adversity, and challenging emotional experiences by managing both emotions and thought patterns. It involves effectively managing emotions and thought patterns in order to maintain internal balance, clarity, and the ability to recover more quickly from setbacks. My approach uses a blend of therapeutic techniques like Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help you gain control over both your emotional responses and thought patterns. Together, we’ll work toward achieving internal clarity, balance, and resilience, enabling you to effectively manage anxiety, stress, and recover from trauma and abuse. By fostering emotional and cognitive equilibrium, you’ll find confidence in navigating life’s challenges.
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Relational Mastery
Relational Mastery focuses on the complex dynamics of interpersonal relationships. This specialized approach equips individuals with the nuanced skills necessary to navigate, enhance, and repair their relationships in both personal and professional contexts. It also supports healing from significant challenges such as infidelity, narcissism (NPD), and borderline personality dynamics (BPD). Using a comprehensive approach that includes techniques such as Emotion-Focused Therapy, Gottman Method, and Financial Therapy, I guide you through the journey of building trust, developing emotional insight, and creating fulfilling, resilient connections. Whether you are working to strengthen a healthy bond or to recover from relational harm, this process empowers you with practical tools and deeper self-awareness, helping you create meaningful and enduring relationships.
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Navigating Life Transitions
Life transitions, such as career changes, relationship shifts, or significant loss, are pivotal moments that disrupt routines and bring emotional or psychological challenges. Even seemingly exciting transitions like getting married, having a baby, or receiving a promotion inherently bring disruption and often require new coping mechanisms and adjustments to unfamiliar roles. These moments of change can also trigger deeper questions about identity, values, and purpose, making therapy a valuable space for exploration and growth. My approach blends family, interpersonal, financial, and evolutionary psychotherapy with executive coaching, strategic fertility support, and parental education. By developing practical strategies and emotional insight, therapy helps you confidently face transitions with a clear path forward, fostering personal and professional growth.
Additional Experience, Training and Expertise
Infertility is often a painful, unexpected circumstance. It can cause significant strain in relationships between partners. Fertility counselling is a form of psychotherapy designed to support individuals or couples who are faces challenges with conceiving a child, considering using a sperm or egg donor, or thinking about adoption or surrogacy.
Fertility.
Postpartum.
The experience of being a parent is often not what people expect. Approximately 10-20% of moms will experience postpartum depression (PPD) and/or postpartum anxiety (PPA). It’s an isolating and scary experience that can impact first time moms, adoptive moms, dads and partners, as well as parents who have experienced miscarriage and infant loss. The focus of treatment is on developing coping strategies for these feelings, enhancing support systems, and incorporating self-care practices into your routines.
Couples.
Couples choose to see a therapist for many reasons. The catalyst could be a pressing, urgent issue that you're not currently equipped to handle, or it could be a subtly simmering issue that you want to tackle before one of you snaps. Still other couples choose to go to a therapist simply to build relationship skills or grow closer as a couple. The exact focus of your treatment will depend on the particulars of your relationship.
Depression.
Persistent sadness, hopelessness, and a lack of interest in life are just some signs of depression. Mild versions of these feelings are normal parts of day-to-day life but when these feelings become especially frequent, intense, or long-lasting, they can interfere with daily life and prevent us from achieving our goals.
Anxiety.
Feeling nervous or apprehensive is normal – but when worrying becomes the go-to response to everyday situations, it becomes debilitating. Difficulty concentrating, ruminating, and avoid social situations are some ways it can show up. Anxiety that runs deep and feels unshakable, can interfere with daily functioning and relationships.
Overwhelm.
Stress and overwhelm comes in all shapes and sizes and can stem from just about any aspect of life from major events (Covid) to anticipated life transitions to the countless little tasks that make up daily life. Different things feel stressful to different people, but when stress becomes too frequent or intense, it can have negative consequences for your physical and mental health.