My Approach

Narrative Therapy 

Narrative Therapy explores the stories we tell about ourselves. This is often done through narrative mapping, in which we explore the themes that define your life’s narrative. We work together to explore what is working and what is not. Then, as co-authors, we rewrite the narrative of your life to reflect who you are and who you want to be. 

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT focuses on growing psychological flexibility, which can include promoting mindfulness, acceptance, and self-compassion. ACT helps you connect with your values and identify the things that make it challenging to make values-based decisions. 

Somatic Therapy 

Somatic Therapy helps you increase mindfulness of the signals your body sends you and how they connect to your emotions. Throughout this process, we can identify what tools may be helpful in grounding. 

Exposure and Response Prevention

ERP helps clients approach OCD triggers and uncertainty while reducing compulsions, reassurance seeking, and avoidance.

We develop exposure exercises collaboratively and move at a pace that is challenging but manageable. The goal is not to eliminate intrusive thoughts or create perfect certainty. It is to help you respond to uncertainty without allowing OCD to control your behavior.

Inference-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

I-CBT focuses on the reasoning process that produces obsessional doubt.

OCD often begins with an imagined possibility that feels as though it must be investigated or resolved. I-CBT helps you recognize how that doubt was constructed, differentiate imagination from direct evidence, and step out of repeated checking and mental review.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

I am trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy, an evidence-based treatment for PTSD. CPT helps us look at how trauma has affected the way you understand yourself, other people, and the world around you.

Trauma can leave people feeling stuck in beliefs involving safety, trust, control, guilt, self-blame, relationships, or their sense of worth. CPT creates space to examine those beliefs with compassion and work toward perspectives that feel more accurate and less limiting. The goal is not to minimize what happened. It is to help the trauma have less control over how you see yourself and move through your life.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

I am currently completing formal training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR. I look forward to bringing this additional approach into my work with trauma survivors soon.