Psychotherapy is an opportunity to enhance learning about behavior, emotions, relationships, and oneself. My goal is to work through the difficulties you are experiencing now while we also build your resiliency to prevent or minimize future difficulties. I ask clients to devote time in between sessions to our work: to increase how accurately we understand your concerns and to take the therapeutic work into your everyday life. I value collaborating with you, and collaborating with other health care providers as needed. Clients often describe me as calm, warm, invested, curious and well-trained. My process-based approach works on the 'what' of your difficulties and on the source of them. ACT and allied therapies identify your challenges and barriers. Our work is designed to help you pursue your goals and free you up to live the kind of life you choose. I use a wide array of psychotherapy models and personalized tools to help you grow. Finding the best client-therapist treatment match is key to therapy effectiveness. I invite potential clients to share some about your concerns and goals, ask me questions, plus talk about practical determinants of match like scheduling and billing before we schedule a first appointment. If I am not a match, I assist clients in finding a best match.
Qualifications: | Loyola University Chicago |
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Academic Suffixes: | PhD |
Expertise: | Addiction, Alcohol Use, Anxiety, Other, Bipolar Disorder, Body Positivity, Borderline Personality, Chronic Pain, Codependency, Coping Skills, Depression, Divorce, Dual Diagnosis, Eating Disorders, Family Conflict, Grief, Life Coaching, Narcissistic Personality, Obesity, Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD), Parenting, Peer Relationships, Relationship Issues, School Issues, Self Esteem, Sexual Abuse, Sleep or Insomnia, Substance Use, Suicidal Ideation, Transgender, Trauma and PTSD, Weight Loss, Women |