My Approach

What to expect from me

Authenticity, compassion, and care. My therapeutic approach is integrative and holistic, built entirely upon being in connection with and curious about clients. My work is most informed by Attachment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Humanistic Psychology approaches. What does that mean? 1) The client/therapist relationship is paramount in my work. 2) I support clients to explore and identify their therapeutic goals, and the therapy thereafter is shaped by those goals. 3) Clients' goals are the compass for inquiry.

Interested in the existential, mystic, and esoteric, I use mindfulness practices, informed by many spiritual practices and lineages. Ancestrally and culinarily Jewish, I use secular Talmudic questioning. I find metaphors to be immensely helpful, and I use metaphor, literature, music, film, history, comparative religions, and mythology in my work, always striving to connect my client’s unique experience to our larger lineage of humanity.

Therapy specialties for tweens, teens, and adults, as well as families, chosen families, and 2+ clients—in need of relationship support

• Family relationships (including family by choice, adult children with parents, siblings) — estranged, connected, and everything in between

• Parenting and step parenting, including co-parenting

• Expression and emotional regulation

• Grief, loss, and transitions

• Shame

• Inadequacy

• Perfectionism

• Life and career planning

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Life and identity shift or transition

• Personal inquiry, exploration, and growth

• Personal and cultural identity

• LGBTQQIP2SAA+ identity

• ADD/ADHD

• Adoption

• Infertility

My therapeutic work draws on the following theories and therapeutic approaches:

• Attachment Psychology & Parenting

• CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

• Depth Psychology

• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy  

• Existentialist Psychology

• Family Systems Psychology (Intergenerational, Structural, Strategic, +)

• Feminist Psychology

• Humanist Psychology

• Liberation Psychology

• Mindfulness Practices

• Narrative Therapy

• Positive Parenting

• Positive Psychology — strength-based

• Radical Acceptance

• Social Justice Psychology

• Sex-Positivity

• Social Psychology

• Somatic Psychology

• Spiritual and Pragmatic Non-dualism