Areas of Specialization

  • Anxiety Disorders include problems with excessive worry and tension, recurrent panic attacks, social fears and avoidance, and specific phobias.

  • Adjustment difficulties can occur following a major life transition or stressor. People often experience heightened anxiety or depression in response to significant life changes.

    Exposure to traumatic events can lead to intrusive memories, intense distress and reactivity when faced with trauma reminders, heightened anxiety, and avoidance behaviors.

  • Mood changes often follow transitions in life, but they can also occur as a result of genetics and situational stressors. Individuals may experience changes in their sleep and energy level, a change in activities, disruptions in their thought processes, and impairments in work or school functioning.

  • Obsessions involve recurrent unwanted thoughts; while compulsions are rituals performed in response to the thoughts. OCD cycles tend to interfere with routine activities because they are distressing and time consuming.

    Hoarding involves difficulty discarding or parting with items, resulting in the excessive accumulation of possessions. People are often distressed by the way in which excess clutter affects their ability to function and maintain their home.

  • The Gottman Method Couples Therapy uses a variety of cognitive-behavioral and emotion-focused techniques to help a couple address conflict, improve communication, and build friendship and intimacy. Couples develop skills that can be used for years to come.

  • Shared parenting between households presents challenges. Co-parents may benefit from learning to move past negative emotions, establish effective communication, resolve differences, and develop procedures for making decisions that affect the children.

Issues

 
  • Anxiety and panic attacks

  • Worry

  • Social anxiety

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

  • Health anxiety and somatic symptoms

  • Specific phobias

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Depression

  • Grief

  • Relationship Issues

  • History of Abuse

  • Victim of Interpersonal Violence

  • Sleep Problems

  • Stress and coping

Treatment Approach

 
  • Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)

  • Behavior Therapy (BT)

  • Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)

  • Cognitive Processing (CPT)

  • Exposure with Response Prevention

  • Prolonged Exposure

  • Trauma Informed Care

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy