Areas of Clinical Interest

Treatment plans are developed collaboratively and are tailored to each person. Here are some approaches we might consider for the following presenting concerns:

    • Learn practices to foster relaxation and ease in the body

    • Explore the functions anxiety has played for you in the past and present

    • Develop mindsets of agency and competence

    • Advocate for increased resources and support

    • Act with courage in the service of goals that matter

    • Understand and empathize with the challenges you face living with ADHD or autism in a neurotypical world

    • Explore and practice skills and strategies that are designed for neurodiverse people

    • Identify, utilize, and appreciate your unique strengths, values, and goals

    • Adapt your environment, expand your support system, and advocate for yourself

    • Foster emotional and relational safety, trust, and regulation

    • Understand effects of trauma and how they make sense given your history

    • Develop compassion, respect, support towards parts of self that have been hurt, at your own pace and in your own way

    • Experiment with new ways of being creative, connected, confident, authentic, and fulfilled

    • Identify internal and external factors that are contributing to depression

    • Foster encouraging, kind, constructive self-talk and implicit beliefs

    • Connect to gifts, interests, activities, goals, and relationships that invite vitality

    • Practice self-care in all dimensions of holistic well-being

I have extensive experience working closely with psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse-practitioners. I welcome the opportunity to collaborate with med-management providers, with a client’s written consent.