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How I Support Your Healing
Therapeutic Approaches
I blend evidence-based CBT, ACT, and DBT-informed skills with somatic, mindfulness, narrative, and trauma-informed care to ease anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Together, we’ll build a virtual treatment plan tailored specifically for Maryland residents, helping you navigate emotional overwhelm with grounded, professional support.
Explore each approach below
How I Practice
Rather than offering rigid, separate services, I blend evidence-based tools into a cohesive experience tailored to your unique needs. My approach integrates different modalities to help you regulate your emotions, build resilience, and find meaningful healing in a way that feels organic and supportive for you.
Is this right for me?
I work exclusively with young adults and adults residing in Maryland. All sessions are conducted via a secure, HIPAA-compliant virtual platform, allowing you to prioritize your mental health from the comfort and safety of your own space.
Core Therapeutic Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT explores the connections between your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Together, we may identify patterns in how you interpret and respond to situations, consider different perspectives, and develop practical strategies that support meaningful changes in your everyday life.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT focuses on developing a different relationship with difficult thoughts and emotions rather than constantly trying to eliminate or control them. Our work may involve clarifying what matters most to you, building greater psychological flexibility, and making choices that are more aligned with your values.
DBT-Informed Skills
DBT-informed strategies can help strengthen skills for navigating intense emotions, tolerating distress, communicating effectively, and managing difficult situations. We may incorporate these skills when practical tools can help you respond more intentionally rather than feeling overwhelmed or reacting automatically.
Somatic-Informed Interventions
Sometimes your body notices something before you have words for it. Somatic-informed work brings attention to physical sensations, tension, urges, and other bodily responses that may accompany emotions or experiences. By slowing down and noticing these signals, we can better understand what they may be communicating and explore different ways of responding.
Narrative Therapy
The stories we develop about ourselves and our experiences can influence how we understand who we are and what feels possible. Narrative therapy creates space to examine those stories, consider how they developed, recognize perspectives that may have been overlooked, and develop a fuller understanding of yourself that isn't defined solely by a problem or difficult experience.
Exposure-Based Interventions
Avoiding situations, thoughts, feelings, or experiences that create anxiety can sometimes provide short-term relief while allowing fear to become stronger over time. When appropriate, exposure-based interventions involve gradually and intentionally approaching what has been avoided in a supportive and structured way, helping build confidence and reduce the influence fear has over your choices.
Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-informed care recognizes that past and present experiences can shape how we understand ourselves, relate to others, and respond to the world around us. This perspective emphasizes safety, collaboration, choice, and respect for your individual experiences without assuming that every concern or reaction is the result of trauma.
Mindfulness-Based Strategies
Mindfulness involves developing greater awareness of what is happening in the present moment without immediately judging, avoiding, or reacting to it. These strategies can help you notice thoughts, emotions, and physical responses more clearly, creating space to choose how you want to respond.
Motivational Interviewing
Insight can be valuable, but sometimes you also need practical ways to do something differently. Skills-based work may focus on communication, boundaries, emotional regulation, conflict, problem-solving, or expressing your needs more effectively so that what you discover in therapy can translate into changes outside of the therapy room.