Counseling Services Provided

Trauma-based therapies, including EMDR, are designed to help individuals move beyond simply coping with trauma to truly processing and integrating their experiences, fostering resilience and significantly improving overall quality of life.

EMDR can also be effective for other mental health issues, such as anxiety, chronic pain, depression, and addiction

Life’s challenges and daily stressors can be overwhelming, especially when we haven’t learned to navigate them or understand our own emotions. This can deplete our confidence and resilience, making it hard to bounce back.

We empower individuals to build emotional resilience by providing practical tools that boost confidence and help you design the life you envision for yourself and your family. Often, clients achieve these goals within just a few sessions.

For more immediate support, Direct Neurofeedback (DNF) offers a powerful intervention, providing rapid relief so you can face life’s challenges with a clear mind, greater effectiveness, and confidence.

Anxiety, though not the cause of OCD, is a significant driver, and these conditions frequently co-occur. Both OCD and anxiety are characterized by “what if” and catastrophic thinking and an intense need for familiarity, reassurance, and certainty. This often results in a pattern of avoidance, keeping individuals trapped in a cycle of doubt and fear.

Our approach empowers you to break this cycle. We’ll guide you in constructing a fear hierarchy, equip you with effective distress tolerance skills, and help you build the resilience to conquer your deepest fears.

ERP is recognized as the gold-standard treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Through this powerful approach, you’ll learn to gradually and safely confront your fears (exposure) and effectively resist the urge to perform rituals (response prevention). ERP helps rewire your brain’s responses through direct experience, leading to profound change that goes beyond just talking.

Your journey starts with a comprehensive diagnostic assessment and a personalized treatment plan. You’ll actively engage in behavioral and goal planning to apply new skills between sessions. As a form of cognitive behavioral therapy, ERP emphasizes practical, real-life application, guiding you through both in-vivo (real-life) and/or imaginal exposures.

To support your success, we also incorporate family interventions to reduce accommodations and will work actively to keep you motivated, addressing any potential barriers. We’re also available to consult with schools or other community supports as needed.

I specialize in many OCD subtypes: Harm OCD, Checking, Just-Right OCD, Scrupulosity, Magical Thinking OCD, Contamination OCD, etc.

Yes, it absolutely can be. The synergy between ERP therapy and Direct Neurofeedback (DNF) is a truly powerful intervention. We often observe rapid and substantial client improvements when these modalities are combined.

Our goal is to reshape your brain pathways, leading to significant improvements in pain and other related symptoms. We’ll guide you in understanding your brain’s signals and how it learns to perceive and manage pain more effectively.

Having lived with chronic back pain since my teenage years—nearly two decades now—I intimately understand the overwhelming and debilitating cycle of fear it creates. You are not alone; I truly know how you feel. More importantly, I know there’s a new way to approach your pain and discover a path forward. It will be a process and won’t be a quick fix, but I know this is possible for you. It would be my privilege to walk this journey alongside you.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) EMDR therapy is increasingly utilized to help manage chronic pain, particularly for individuals with a history of trauma and high emotional distress. It aims to address the psychological factors contributing to pain, ultimately improving overall quality of life for those with chronic pain conditions.

Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT) helps your brain relearn that pain and other physical symptoms are not dangerous. It teaches your brain to recognize these sensations as merely faulty warning signals, using various techniques to calm the brain and break the fear cycle often associated with chronic pain.

Similar to PRT, Emotional Awareness and Expression Training (EAET) guides your brain to understand that emotions themselves are not harmful. This approach facilitates a deeper healing process by encouraging safe engagement with your emotional landscape.

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When tantrums strike, the instinct is often to focus solely on behavior modification. Yet, the parent-child relationship is profoundly more impactful during your child’s most challenging moments. While it’s natural for parents to seek space when overwhelmed, children can perceive this, often leading to an increase in undesirable behaviors.

We will provide you with practical, actionable exercises to engage with your child so they feel deeply seen, heard, and valued. Our experience consistently shows that when relationship enhancements are prioritized, the need for strict behavior management significantly decreases. We are eager to teach you and your child an evidence-based method to foster a stronger, more resilient relationship.

Understanding Behavior & Fostering Positive Change

Nearly all behavior serves a purpose: to gain something desired (like attention, an item, or control) or to avoid something unwanted (such as chores, ending a fun activity, or consequences).

To effectively change most children’s behavior, it’s crucial to modify the environment. This ensures that unwanted behaviors no longer yield their intended results, while positive, alternative behaviors are consistently rewarded and effective in all settings.

Our Approach:

• Weekly Goal: Each session, parents/caregivers identify one specific behavior to focus on. You’ll learn 1-2 practical skills to implement at home.
• “You-Work” is Key: Progress stems from changes implemented at home, not merely from discussing them in sessions.

This is all part of our Relationship Enhancement Behavior Management approach, designed to empower you to create lasting positive change.