Licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and accepts 21 insurances. Specializes in Anxiety, Family Conflict, Self Esteem and 10 more.
(she/her)
You already know something is not working. Maybe it shows up in your relationships, your stress, or patterns you cannot seem to shake. I help you name it plainly and work on changing it. With a background spanning children, teens, and adults across individual, group, and family settings, I bring a direct, honest approach I call caring confrontation: pointing to what is not serving you, then working with you on what comes next. We all have these things to look at. I am no exception. If that sounds like what you need, I would love to connect.
The goal for our first session is to make you feel as though you made the right choice when you chose me. I will provide a non-judgemental space for you to explore the reasons you came to therapy. Our session will include some conversation about my idea of therapy so you understand me as well. We will have a chance to talk about expectations; mine as well as yours, which are equally important! At the beginning we are strangers, so we will get to know each other until you are comfortable to begin sharing more sensitive topics and information. If that happens in session one then that is fantastic, but it is not expected.
What makes me unique is that I have quite a varied background in career, experience, and education. I have extensive experience in caring confrontation - in other words, bringing to your attention when something is not working for you and then working with you to figure out how to change it. We all have these things in life to look at. I am no exception. I like to get right to the point and I have been told that my straightforward approach is appreciated. Therapy should be available for as long as it is needed, but it should not feel like a long, drawn-out process.
What I ask of my clients is to come to me with an open mind and the willingness to put in the effort to make the challenging parts of life less so. I will give you my time, my patience, my experience, and my empathy. In return, you will be open to those things and create a partnership with me.
Cash - $85 per session
Aetna
Aetna - Allied Benefits
Aetna - ASR Health Benefits
Aetna - Luminare
Aetna - Moda
Aetna - WebTPA
Aetna – HealthEZ
Amerihealth
Amerihealth Administrators
Arlo
Centivo
Cigna
Cigna - HealthEZ
EAP:Cigna
EAP:Evernorth
Evernorth
Geisinger - Commercial
GTEB
Independence Administrators
Independence Blue Cross
Tufts Health/Cigna
I am a firm believer that we all have the ability to "train our brain" just like we train the rest of our bodies. Just like practicing for a sport makes your body better adept to play it, practicing the way we think makes our brain more adept at thinking that way. It is sometimes hard work, but that is what I am here to help you with!
At the core of much of our emotional distress is misunderstanding how we are actually feeling. Also, the lack of ability to recognize that we are emotionally escalated causes us to react instead of think about how we would really like to handle a situation. Sometimes we need practice recognizing our heightened emotions as they are happening and training ourselves to stop and think before acting.
I have extensive experience in family systems and how their function or dysfunction affects the interpersonal relationships within. I love sitting down with families and helping them recognize unhelpful patterns of communication and behavior and showing them that there is a way to change them for the better!
There is little to say other than the only thing predictable about grief is that it is unpredictable. I am here for the ride as you navigate loss and have personal experience to draw from and share.
Anyone in therapy is on the path to change; changing what causes you discomfort. Making the commitment to work with me through what can sometimes be difficult choices will get us there. My role is to ask the questions to get you to think about what that change might be and how you want it to come about.
1 rating with written reviews
May 24, 2026
I really value a counselor that is direct, authentic, to the point and isn’t afraid to tell you what you are doing wrong and where you need to improve. That is what most people want from therapy- personal growth and improvement. She was honest, direct, experienced and easy to talk to.