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Services
Navigating difficult circumstances or symptoms doesn’t need to happen alone. Build insight into what really matters and how to work toward your values for a meaningful, authentic, and fulfilling life.
I treat children, adolescents, and adults experiencing:
Anxiety disorders - perfectionism, specific phobias, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, panic, agoraphobia, stress responses
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - including little known presentations, severe and treatment refractory, and related disorders; I can also provide comprehensive OCD evaluations and consults for navigating next steps in treatment
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - including in veteran populations and in health care workers (COVID-specific trauma responses)
School avoidance
Life changes/stressors - Transitions can be difficult or even scary. Build insight into what really matters and how to work toward your values in the pursuit of an fulfilling life.
I treat adults experiencing stress or anxiety that impacts:
Parenting - parenting youth with anxiety, parents with anxiety, school avoidance issues, support for parents, coparenting, parenting during transition times
Postpartum/women’s issues - postpartum OCD/anxiety, newborn care, attachment, navigating new parenthood, general wellness in the postpartum period, building your postpartum supports, birth story processing/trauma
Relationships - anxiety within relationships, relationship OCD, trust, communication, team-building, noticing and breaking maladaptive cycles
Talks, consults, and workshops for your organization are also available.
CBT/ACT/ERP workshops and trainings: Catered to your needs; can be provided for early career psychologists, new team members/trainees, or to increase skill usage
Grand rounds/didactics at universities: Can be provided on a variety of topics including reciprocal relationship between parenting, parent symptoms, and child symptoms; treatment modalities including CBT/ACT/ERP and integrating them together; OCD; and managing wellbeing following COVID
Schools: Talks and workshops available on how to manage anxiety in the school; school avoidance; school counselor/therapist related topics; managing parent involvement in students’ school
Businesses: Consults and talks/workshops available to streamline business processes, promote employee wellbeing, improve leadership skills and efficacy, increase communication across departments
Community: I love to support the local community and am happy to provide talks related to issues of wellness, managing COVID-related mental health concerns, anxiety, parenting, and building resilience.
Individual therapy
For many individuals, weekly 45 minute sessions are appropriate. Most individual therapy is targeted, goal-oriented, and time limited; however, longer term supportive therapy is sometimes also available.
Initial Assessments: In order to tailor treatment to your needs or the needs of your child, a thorough initial assessment is conducted using evidence based semi-structured interviews and scales. Initial assessments for adults are typically 90 minutes (although a basic 60 min intake is also possible for milder symptoms), and for adolescents, they are split between two 60 minute sessions, one with the parent/s, and one with the child (or one longer session with both). The initial assessment is an opportunity to assess the goodness of fit between the client’s needs and symptoms and the types of treatment offered. Referrals will be made if, based on the assessment, we are not an optimal fit.
Intensive OCD or anxiety treatment
For some individuals it is helpful to accelerate treatment by meeting more frequently or for longer durations. These decisions will be made collaboratively based on symptom presentation. Intensive treatments are available for OCD, PTSD, specific phobias, or school avoidance. Meetings may be 2-3 times per week. Occasionally, it is appropriate to meet in person for exposure sessions in the home or in the community. These sessions are priced based on length of the session and prorated for driving time depending on your location. There is no fee associated with meeting locally in Rye or Rye Brook.
Couples therapy
If you’re experiencing discord in your romantic relationship, you and your partner may benefit from weekly therapy targeting maladaptive cycles in the relationship and building positive interactions. Some couples also choose to come to therapy to strengthen their relationship when it is going well. Others need help healing from specific events in the relationship. Just as in individual therapy, weekly 45-60-minute sessions are typically appropriate, but can be tailored to your needs.
Family/parent coaching
If your child is experiencing difficulty, parenting and family sessions can assist in supporting your and your child’s wellbeing. These sessions will provide parents specific evidence based tools to improve the parent-child relationship and the child’s functioning. These meetings are part of many treatment plans for adolescent clients. These sessions can be weekly, every other week, or as needed.
Consultations or Talks
Professional consultations/supervision: Occasionally, colleagues or early career psychologists seek professional consultations or supervision of challenging cases or cases outside of their personal expertise. These consults can be ongoing or time limited.
Workshops, talks, consults, and guest speaker appearances for corporations, schools, community groups, and universities: Schools, private practices, corporations, community centers, and academic organizations or universities may request talks on specific topics. Many organizations are aiming to support employee wellbeing and prevent burnout following the challenges associated with COVID. Similarly, schools are struggling to support students’ return to the classroom. In these cases, a tailored consult, workshop, or talk can benefit your organization. Previous topics include managing anxiety in school, integrating ACT and ERP to optimize treatment outcomes, supporting employee wellbeing during COVID, reducing school avoidance, preventing health care worker burnout, improving leadership skills and employee satisfaction, and more.
CBT, ERP, and ACT workshops/didactics can also be provided for your private practice or early career therapists on your team.