Areas of Specialty
& Modalities That Inform Treatment
Depression
Anxiety
Emotion Regulation
Adjustment/Life Transitions
Trauma
Chronic Illness
Chronic Pain
Parenting Concerns for Parents of Older Adolescents/Young Adults
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CBT is an evidence based treatment, aimed at helping individuals to understand the interrelationships between their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. In recognizing unhelpful patterns of thoughts, emotions, or behaviors, people can also learn to challenge and change their thoughts or behaviors to be more effective for them. This treatment can be appropriate for clients experiencing distress related to chronic pain or illness, generalized anxiety, depression, difficulty adjusting to life transitions, and various other concerns.
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DBT is an evidence-based treatment, aimed at balancing acceptance and change strategies to help clients increase their ability to tolerate distress, regulate their emotions, and improve their interpersonal relationships. This treatment can be appropriate for clients experiencing difficulties with emotion regulation, depression, substance misuse, distress related to chronic pain or illness, certain trauma symptoms, or symptoms of borderline personality disorder.
Of note, I do not provide phone coaching or group skills training at this time. However, with specialty training in DBT, I am able to provide individual skills training and individual therapy informed by the principles, skills, and general structure of DBT.
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BA is an evidenced-based treatment for depression. This treatment focuses on identifying values and employing strategies to increase values-consistent activity engagement in order to reduce depressive symptoms.
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CPT is an evidenced-based trauma treatment, aimed at helping clients with post-traumatic stress disorder identify and challenge beliefs associated with their traumatic experiences, in order to help clients restructure thought patterns to reduce fear, anger, guilt, or shame responses associated with the trauma. CPT may also involve discussing the trauma memory and approaching trauma triggers that one might be avoiding.
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BPT is for parents of adolescents and/or young adults with behavioral concerns (e.g., failure to launch). It is based in behaviorism, and provides behavioral strategies aimed at improving relationships between parents and their children, and identifying age appropriate expectations and contingencies, with the goal of changing adolescent or young adult behavior.