Empowering You to Achieve A Life Worth Living

Therapy is focused primarily on treating a diagnosis.  However, even with a diagnosis, the emphasis is on improving quality of life and finding life worth living. Emphasis on the diagnosis is hard and often not effective.  I have more freedom to see the whole person by not taking insurance at this time.

Dialectic Behavior Therapy

• Skill groups and individual therapy focused on learning skills and working through steps to build a life worth living. 
• Emotional Regulation, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness and Mindfulness
• Adaptable for neuro-divergent individuals, family and adolescents.

Additional advanced training in Radically Open - Dialectic Behavior Therapy for Disorders of Over Control. 

Anxiety and OCD Therapy with ERP

• Diagnostic Evaluations for Anxiety vs OCD
• Experienced treatment with OCD and neurodivergence together
• Exposure and Reaction Prevention for phobias, OCD and other avoidance behaviors
• Body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) - trichotillomania (Hairpulling), derma (skin picking) etc.
• Reducing compulsive behaviors that are interfering with quality of life with those with Autism Spectrum Disorders.  The baseline is different, however, working with compulsions is the same.
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LGBTQIA+ Support in Trying Times

• Doom scrolling?
• Trying to figure out if coming out is safe?
• Parents trying to find support, ask questions and get it “right”
• Transitioning? 
• Get support with an activist working to insure protection of LGBTQIA+ identities here in Maryland.

Individual coaching empowers you to achieve goals, and is rooted in focusing on the future. Coaching is often short-term and/or moves to another area of coaching or skills.

• Executive Functioning Coaching - teaches people how to organize, plan, prioritize, manage time, maintain focus, self-assess, and study efficiently. Self-management skills are increasingly important in a complex world with many distractions and competing priorities.
• Self-Regulation Coaching – teaches people how to manage their emotions, behavior, and body movement when they're faced with a tough situation. It also allows them to do that while staying focused and paying attention
• Study Skills – Teaching people how to organize and take in new information, retain information, and produce the learning points in a way that is effective
• Time Management/Organization – Prioritizing, Decision-making, Goal setting, Problem solving, Scheduling
• Procrastination/Perfectionism Coaching – Learn skills to manage time and emotions to get hard tasks completed in a timely manner
• Self-Compassion Training – learn how to change your self-talk from the critical, coach that is always yelling to the kind and patient coach that you need in your life to maintain focus and kindness
• Mindful-Based Stress Reduction Training - an eight-week evidence-based program that offers secular, intensive mindfulness training to assist people with stress, anxiety, depression and pain.