Specialties

While I have been trained in and worked with a variety of issues across the lifespan, there are a few particular areas that I have received additional training in, have more experience with, and especially enjoy helping.

  • Chronic illness impacts every aspect of your life. You may feel like it holds all the control, and life lacks the purpose and meaning it used to. You run out of spoons before you’re even halfway through your day. As a health psychologist, I am especially trained to help folks to take some of that control back and improve quality of life through values exploration, radical acceptance, practical behavior change, and a whole lot of self-compassion.

  • Can’t turn your brain off at night? Even the sleep medication isn’t cutting it? Good news - research shows that behavioral interventions are typically more effective than sleep medications, with longer lasting results. Treatment is typically brief, focused, and structured, with tangible steps to take to improve sleep. This can be a standalone treatment, or integrated into our work together along with other presenting problems.

  • Whether you have been diagnosed for years, or it has been overlooked until now - executive dysfunction is hard to cope with in our fast-paced, performance-driven world. Sometimes your brain cooperates, and other times it is like pulling teeth just to get the most simple task completed (let alone starting it). Perpetually forgetting keys, impulse purchases for a dopamine boost, disorganization across the board … I get it. I help adults with ADHD from a strengths-based, solution-focused approach to work with your neurospicy brain, rather than against it.

  • As prepared as we think we are, sometimes life transitions catch us off guard or do not go as planned. While a new move or retirement can be exciting, it can also be a time of uncertainty - or even disappointment. Therapy can be a helpful way to organize our thoughts, cope with the things we can’t change, and take action on the things we can to improve our situation.

  • So many changes happen when we become mothers. It changes our priorities, our attention and focus, our self-concept…and often uncovers things we did not know were there. And the toughest part? We often shoulder this all on our own, taking care of everyone except ourselves. My work with moms include holding space for frustrations, processing grief of lost or changed identities, coping skills for overstimulation and dysregulation, and good deal of validation that this feels hard because it is hard - not because you’re a bad mom.

  • Being a military spouse comes with a unique set of challenges that most others cannot understand unless they’ve experienced it themselves. The constant uncertainty, the solo parenting, the limited time with your spouse, the additional roles and tasks you have to take on because your spouse cannot … it is a lot.  As a military spouse myself, I intimately understand the challenges that come with military life; my hope is that I can help to validate your experience and provide practical steps to improve the stress you feel in your day to day life.