Specializations

I provide psychotherapy to adults and adolescents through a Gestalt, feminist, holistic and relational orientation. I am fully trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR therapy and completed a three-year training program at the Gestalt Training Institute of Philadelphia. Mindfulness and Somatic (body) awareness is also incorporated.

I am experienced working with the following:

  • Family of origin issues and parent-child dynamic
  • Healing from developmental or attachment trauma (parental rejection, neglect or enmeshment)
  • Addressing the core issues of adoption with all members of the adoption constellation
  • Recovery from exposure to traumatic events and experiences
  • Veterans and military families
  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Navigating adoption and foster care systems
  • Identifying as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and/or Asexual
  • Grief and Loss resolution, including death of a companion animal
  • Development of coping skills
  • Life transition adjustment and acceptance
  • Relationship concerns
  • Healing from diet culture and nurturing body acceptance