LP, 5 years of experience
Frequently rebooked
I aim to create a calm, sturdy, trustworthy, emotionally grounded, and radically nonjudgmental therapeutic space where you can be deeply curious about your own experience. A patient space where you can take your time. A space where you can slow down, breathe, reflect, be silent or quiet. A space where you can be loud, angry, triggered, upset. A space where you don't have to make sense, but we can make sense of things together. Education: B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from Northwestern University, Doctorate in Psychology (Psy.D.) from the Wright Institute.
Introductions, agenda setting, a semi-structured intake process, then beginning to address the specific challenges you're facing. This will help me create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions.
integrating "deep" work with humor, concrete goal-setting, and building up "nuts-and-bolts" coping skills.
People who struggle with perfectionism, indecision, low self-esteem, unstable or unsatisfying relationships, setting goals and adhering to planned changes. Also people who are struggling with choosing or adjusting to psychiatric medication, a new medical diagnosis or related lifestyle change, romantic relationship problems including break-ups, marital relationship problems including disputes on parenting issues or either partner having an affair, adjustment to having a new psychiatric diagnosis like Bipolar Disorder, and adjustment to daily living following a psychiatric hospitalization.
Schema Therapy, created by Dr. Jeffrey Young -- this therapy integrates object relations, attachment theory, and psycho-drama with CBT and experiential techniques. Traumas and otherwise emotionally powerful memories from childhood or adolescence are evoked and directly treated in-session. This is combined with a heavy emphasis on psychoeducation, handouts, and homework that targets the nuts-and-bolts work of applying coping skills within the schema framework.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - formal training in Dr. Marsha Linehan's DBT Fundamentals online course, concurrent with post-doctoral training (1500+ hours) as a participating clinician on a full-package DBT team at clinic called The Wise Mind Institute
attachment-based approaches include object relations (relational psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory), schema therapy, and Steven Hayes's Process-Based CBT
ACT - acceptance and commitment therapy. Completed Dr. Steven Hayes's live, 4-day foundational training called "ACT Boot Camp"
Was trained in delivering this treatment protocol in hospital setting during Predoctoral Internship