Services & Specialties
Read more about some of my specialty areas below. Please know I am here to provide you with compassionate and professional care no matter the reason you find yourself seeking therapy services.
Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating
Our relationships with food and our bodies are deeply personal, cultural, emotional, practical, and embedded with so much meaning from the social environments we live in and messages we have received growing up. Your relationship with food isn't wrong. Your relationship with your body isn't wrong. You may feel otherwise for a whole host of reasons, but the work we do is to better understand your relationship to yourself, your needs for nourishment, and how you would like to relate to your body. We often have complicated relationships with food and our bodies for complex reasons such as trauma, living in chronic diet culture, growing up in restrictive food environments, grief, aging, medical reasons, and so much more.
What you need to know: This isn't your fault.
Breathe that in once more: This. Isn't. Your. Fault.
This might sound confusing as you may have thought your body or your eating patterns have been the problem all along. The great news is that we can slowly unpack food rules, our nuanced relationship with body image, and begin to explore what an embodied relationship with ourselves looks and feels like.
- We can change our relationship with food.
- We can work towards feeling comfort and belonging in our bodies.
- We can practice moving through feelings of guilt and shame.
- We can improve mental health and focus on nourishment.
- We can process fears around food and body image and learn new ways to relate to each respectively.
- I provide continuity of care and I am happy to work with your dietitian, psychiatrists, or others on your care team.
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Gender Identity & Sexuality
Trying to understand and navigate the nuances of identity can be a complex and confusing process, full of questions and uncertainty. Therapy is a place where we can dig deep into questions regarding the vast spectrum of gender and sexuality so that you can better know yourself and live a life that is authentic to you. We are LGBTQIA+ affirming and knowledgeable. You are welcome to share your full lived experience and contemplations into this space.
- We can explore understanding and acceptance of your unique gender identity and sexual orientation.
- We can explore gender affirming care and connect you with resources that are inclusive and supportive.
- Discover coping techniques for overcoming stress, anxiety, and grief associated with identity exploration.
- Hold space for the complicated reality of living within intersectional and marginalized identities.
- Identify your strengths, values, and aspirations to live a life that is authentic to you.
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
If you’re one of the many individuals struggling with PCOS, it is likely you have been dealing with symptoms that often make you feel like a relationship with your body is difficult. You may be asking yourself how you can intimately befriend your body when you feel like it’s a battle zone filled with betrayal. I want you to know that as an individual with PCOS, I intimately know your struggles. The intersections of eating disorders, disordered eating, gender, fertility, weight stigma, body image distress, and mental health symptoms are at times incomprehensible and too much to deal with. I know your struggles with medical providers who are not up to date on their research for PCOS treatment and how it has harmed your relationship with your body, food, and feelings. Because PCOS is a lifelong disorder, unfortunately we cannot make it go away; however, together we can begin to explore ways to live with this condition, grieve, and begin to transform our relationship to our bodies and to symptoms of PCOS.
Together in therapy we can:
- Hold space for how PCOS is impacting your life
Learn to care for symptoms of anxiety & depression so they don't rule your life.
Grieve the negligence you may have endured, and continue to endure, from medical professionals.
Better understand the intersections of PCOS, eating disorders, gender, and fertility.
Process struggles with conception and infertility.
- Understand and affirm the body you live in.
Build new pathways to embodiment.
I am happy to provide continuity of care for you. I regularly work with clients’ dietitians and care team to ensure you are receiving the most comprehensive care possible.
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Grief
The world seems to stop when someone we love dies. Daily tasks that once seemed so simple have suddenly become mountainous. The outside world seems to somehow unfairly chime on while your internal world and entire living experience has changed. Where do we go from here? How do we cope and adjust to life among death? How do we move through spiritual changes that might happen in the process?
Grief is also not an emotion and experience reserved only for when a loved one dies. We can grieve our beloved pets. We can grieve the ending of relationships with partners or family members. We can also grieve parts of our own selves, states of being, childhood, life before becoming a parent, ideas, and the relationships we have to our bodies. We can also experience grief regarding illness, complex diagnoses, or our own complicated identities. There is no wrong way to grieve. There is no timeline for grief. Your grief is welcome here.
Together in therapy we can:
Identify unique sources of grief in your life and welcome a relationship with grief.
Remember your loved one(s).
Process trauma around terminal illness and unexpected death.
Hold complicated grief as we remember the nuance and dualities of relationships.
Feel the whole range of emotions associated with grief: anger, despair, guilt, rage, sadness, anxiety, bargaining, relief, acceptance, and more.
Identify parts of yourself you may be grieving and learn how to honor who you were and who you are becoming.
Better understand what we need out of relationships with yourself, family members, and partnerships.
Explore meaning making, existential thought, spirituality, and what it means to be alive.
Deepen your understanding of meaningful relationships and your relationship to yourself.
Process depression, isolation, and anxiety that often accompany grief and loss.
Teen Therapy: For Teens (and parents!)
Teenage years are unique and can be particularly challenging. If you’re a teen yourself, or the parent of a teenager, you know this can be true! Hormones and bodies are changing which can feel weird. School likely feels more challenging than middle school, and you’re starting to really explore and get to know yourself better in so many ways. You might have a lot of questions about yourself, new emotions you’re experiencing, starting to have crushes or relationships, or having some rifts between yourself and friends. You might be experiencing heightened social anxiety, generalized anxiety, or depression – the list is ongoing, but I feel you! And, I’m here for you.
In this space, you’re welcome to take your time. If you’re a teen reading this while considering therapy, I know it can be hard to trust someone new to talk with about your innermost feelings. You’ll never be pressured to share anything you don’t want to or that you’re not ready to share. We take it really slow to build trust and get to know one another. We can draw together while we talk, play some games, and even talk with our cameras off for bits of time if you’re feeling really shy. Therapy is a space for you to talk about what’s going on in your world and what you discuss in therapy gets to stay private. Except for safety stuff…which we can go over more in detail – basically, it’s our priority to make sure you are safe. Everything else stays between us and is confidential.
Parents, if you find yourself struggling with this phase of parenting you, too, are not alone! By now you’re well aware of the old adage “it takes a village,” and raising a teen is no different. You’re both going through new life phases and that comes with a world of adjustment as we just want to show up and be there for our growing kids. Raising teens, working, navigating marriage or divorce, caring for aging parents and our own mental health can all be a real struggle of its own. You deserve some support and a place to process this unique moment of life!
Young Adults: Late Teens (18+) & Early to Mid-Twenties
You’re entering a new life transition: early adulthood! What an incredibly liberating yet complicated time. The world sees you as an adult, but you might feel like there’s so much still to figure out…because there is! You’re not alone if you’re feeling indecisiveness, fearful of moving out and heading to a new college, making new friends, or feeling an increase in feelings of anxiety or depression. You likely have so many new questions about who you are, what you would like your life to look like, or need help managing new emotions you’ve never experienced until now. The good news: you don’t have to go it alone! I’m here to help guide you with new skills you may not have needed to learn until now. We can help explore all of the pathways before you to help you better understand who you are and your sense of direction. We will likely even process some difficult family relationships you’re getting to process for the first time since you’re now out of the house and building your own relationships and friend families. These are great ages to join therapy as you’re on a path of self-discovery, questioning, and healing!
You deserve radically compassionate support no matter the season you find yourself in today. Whether you are in a cycle of hibernation or new growth, you don’t have to tend to life alone.
Learn more about my holistic approach and how I can support you.
