I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with licensure in New York and Pennsylvania and currently provide psychotherapy through Telehealth. I have 15+ years of experience providing counseling services to adults, families and emerging adults in outpatient and higher education settings. I utilize an integrative and tailored approach that includes attachment theory, family systems, CBT and DBT to manage anxiety, depression, life transitions and trauma.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session together, you can expect to explore what's bringing you to treatment and begin to identify tangible goals. We will also process important developmental events and relationships across your life and learn some basic strategies you can use to start managing symptoms.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
Having worked with adults and emerging adults in outpatient mental health, educational and private practice settings over the past 15+ years, I know how important it is to be an active participant in my your treatment and value the importance of establishing and utilizing our therapeutic alliance to effect and manage change in treatment. With this understanding, you're able to bring coping tools and insight from our sessions into day-to-day practice.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I enjoy working with adults navigating life transitions and wanting to work on interpersonal communication skills. Often our work is supported by helping you understand the development of unhelpful coping strategies, often based in unmet attachment needs with early caregivers.
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Attachment-based
Attachment theory has been at the core of my psychotherapy practice. In 2017, I completed training/certification in "Attachment and Affect Regulation Theory: Clinical Applications" at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research in 2017. I believe attachment theory is at the core of understanding my clients' attempts to cope with distress and to help clients develop the capacity for healthy dependency, especially within the reparative potential of the therapeutic relationship.
Trauma Informed Care
In January 2023, I became a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (Level I & II), through Janina Fisher's online training program. Understanding that emotional experience is always embedded in body experience can be a profound insight for clients to move from internalizing trauma and living within triggered states. Helping client understand the role of their nervous system, underlying cognitive schemas and parts of self that have operated to manage shame and fear can allow for a sense of integration and healing.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
I'm currently in-process of becoming a Certified Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Professional, and have been using components of DBT in treatment with my clients over the years. Helping clients map their emotional terrain and practice skills to work with difficult emotions has been an essential tool for client growth.