OCD and Phobias

If you're struggling with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), or if your child is struggling with OCD (including OCD due to PANS/PANDAS), I can help. Your efforts to manage your or your child's OCD, while creative and sincere, seem to be less effective over time, and more and more of your time is taken up trying to manage your fears and anxieties with less and less relief. Over time it may be cutting you or your child off from friends, making it harder to work or complete your education, harder to freely go where you want, and it feels like your life is getting smaller as your OCD symptoms get worse.

I am trained in Exposure Response Prevention (ExRP), the gold-standard for OCD treatment. Not only this, but I also work extensively with people with trauma experiences, severe depression and anxiety, so have a good understanding of the complex interactions between these issues and OCD. ExRP offers quick progress to find relief from your OCD.

OCD is very treatable. It is extremely common, and people living with it should be commended for their efforts to work through it. I have lived experience of OCD myself and helped one of my own children recover from OCD due to PANS. I offer lived and professional experience and a place of full acceptance and understanding to partner in your recovery.

Childhood Trauma Recovery

I work with adults who are in recovery from chronic childhood trauma, including in complex relationships with parents or caregivers. This can show up in adulthood as various difficulties tolerating or experiencing peace and security in close relationships, carrying a persistence sense of inadequacy or shame, feeling unworthy of love, never feeling quite able to reach sufficiency, or feeling like even when you make it to a place of success you don't really belong there.

Grief and Loss

I specialize in working with traumatic loss - the unexpected death of a spouse or long-term partner, child or other close family member. I help people with adjusting to life without the loved-one present, finding a new sense of self, integrating the lost loved-one into your ongoing life, finding pleasure again, finding ways to live again, and developing an ongoing relationship with the person we lost. We don’t have to get over it, we can learn to live alongside grief.

Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

I work with people who live with psychosis and mood disorders. I help with figuring out how to live alongside long-term symptoms, developing a life worth living, developing a sense of worth, balancing out health practices to reduce distress, and sustaining satisfying relationships.

Intimate Partner Abuse

I work with women who are partnered with abusive and controlling men, helping to recover from the self-esteem and other kinds of internal harm caused by the abuse, and figuring out how to move forward alongside the relationship or after it has ended.