Our Specialties

Move from Conflict to Connection

Even the strongest relationships can be tested by the pressures of demanding careers, family responsibilities, and the pace of modern life. Over time, couples can find themselves drifting apart, stuck in the same repetitive arguments, or feeling more like roommates than partners. The connection and intimacy that once felt easy can begin to feel distant and difficult to reclaim.

Seeking therapy is not a sign that your relationship has failed; it's a proactive decision to invest in its future. It's an acknowledgment that the skills that brought you together may not be the same ones you need to navigate new challenges.

Our Approach: Building Skills for a Stronger Partnership

My role in couples therapy is not to act as a referee or to decide who is right or wrong. I am a guide and a coach, helping you both understand the negative cycle you're caught in and equipping you with the tools to break free from it. My approach is structured, collaborative, and based on decades of research into what makes relationships succeed.

We will work together to:

• Identify Your Negative Cycle: We'll map out the recurring pattern of conflict that leaves you both feeling hurt, misunderstood, and disconnected.

• Learn to Communicate Effectively: You will learn practical skills to talk to each other instead of at each other, allowing you to discuss difficult topics without the conversation escalating.

• Rebuild Friendship and Intimacy: We will focus on rekindling the fondness, admiration, and emotional connection that form the foundation of a resilient partnership.

• Navigate Conflict Constructively: You will learn how to manage disagreements in a way that brings you closer, rather than pushing you further apart.

I provide support for couples facing a range of challenges, including:

• Communication breakdowns

• Constant conflict and repetitive arguments

• Infidelity and breaches of trust

• Challenges with emotional and physical intimacy

• Navigating major life transitions (parenthood, career changes, an empty nest)

• Premarital counseling to build a strong foundation

Imagine feeling like you are on the same team again, able to turn toward each other with confidence and trust. If you are ready to invest in your relationship and build a stronger future together, I invite you to connect.

A Sophisticated, Science-Backed Approach to Sexual Health & Intimacy

For many successful individuals and couples, sex and intimacy can be the most difficult topics to discuss. What was once a source of connection and pleasure can become a source of anxiety, frustration, or distance. Because these challenges are so personal, many people struggle in silence, believing they are alone or that something is fundamentally wrong.

Sexual health is an integral part of overall well-being. My practice provides a confidential, non-judgmental, and professional space to address your sexual concerns, helping you move toward a more confident and fulfilling intimate life.

Our Approach: Integrating Science and Compassion

My approach to sex therapy is grounded in the latest research on human sexuality, attachment, and behavioral science. As a published researcher in top-tier journals like The Journal of Sexual Medicine, I bring a deep, scientific understanding to our work, moving beyond simple advice to provide effective, evidence-based strategies tailored to you or your relationship.

Our sessions are a nonjudgemental space to explore the psychological, emotional, and relational factors that are impacting your sex life. We will work together to:

• Improve Communication: Learn a new language to talk about your desires, needs, and boundaries with openness and without shame.

• Reduce Anxiety: Address performance anxiety and other fears that interfere with pleasure and connection.

• Deepen Intimacy: Rebuild emotional and physical closeness within your relationship.

• Gain Education: Dispel myths and provide accurate, science-based information about sexual health and functioning.

I provide specialized, expert care for individuals and couples addressing:

• Low or Mismatched Sexual Desire (Libido)

• Performance Anxiety

• Erectile Dysfunction (ED) and other arousal concerns

• Premature or Delayed Ejaculation

• Pain During Intercourse (Dyspareunia/Vaginismus)

• Difficulties with Orgasm

• Navigating the impact of infidelity, illness, or life transitions on your sex life

• Exploring and enhancing sexual satisfaction

A healthy, satisfying intimate life is a cornerstone of a thriving relationship and personal happiness. If you are ready to address these challenges in a confidential, professional, and science-driven environment, I invite you to get in touch.

Navigating the Emotional Landscape of Your Family-Building Journey

The path to building a family is rarely the straight line we imagine. For many, it becomes an emotional rollercoaster defined by medical appointments, anxious waiting, and cycles of hope and profound disappointment. This journey can be incredibly isolating, a deeply personal and often silent struggle that can strain your relationship with your partner, your body, and even your sense of self.

Whether you are navigating the stress of infertility, coping with the grief of pregnancy loss, or adjusting to the challenges of the postpartum period, you may feel like you’ve lost control. My role is to provide a safe, confidential space for you to process this complex experience, separate from the pressures of medical advice and the well-meaning but often unhelpful input of friends and family.

Our Approach: Compassionate Support & Practical Skills

Our approach is to provide both a compassionate space to process the emotional toll of your journey and a practical toolkit to help you cope. We will work together to manage the anxiety and grief that can be all-consuming, while also focusing on strengthening your resilience and clarifying your path forward.

Our work together can help you:

• Develop Coping Strategies: Learn effective, evidence-based skills to manage the intense stress, anxiety, and grief that accompany fertility treatments and loss.

• Strengthen Your Relationship: Improve communication with your partner, ensuring you can navigate this challenging time as a team.

• Navigate Difficult Decisions: Gain clarity and confidence as you face complex choices about treatments, third-party reproduction, or considering a child-free life.

• Process Grief and Loss: Create space to honor the unique grief that comes with miscarriage, stillbirth, or unsuccessful treatments in a way that feels healing and valid.

I provide support for individuals and couples across the full spectrum of reproductive health, including:

• Infertility-related stress and anxiety

• Support during IUI/IVF and other fertility treatments

• Pregnancy loss (miscarriage, stillbirth, termination for medical reasons)

• Perinatal and postpartum anxiety and depression

• Traumatic birth experiences

• Decisions around using donor sperm, eggs, or surrogacy

• Adjusting to a pregnancy after a loss

• Exploring and transitioning to a child-free life

You do not have to carry this weight by yourself. If you are looking for a space where your experience is understood and validated, I invite you to reach out.

Find a Calmer, More Confident Way Forward

Anxiety can feel like an engine that's always running in the background—a constant hum of worry, "what-ifs," and worst-case scenarios that steals focus from the present and enjoyment of the life you've worked so hard to build. For many high-achieving individuals, anxiety shows up as relentless perfectionism, a debilitating fear of failure, or a mind that simply won't shut off at night.

You might be caught in a cycle of overthinking, physically exhausted from the tension and racing heart, or avoiding situations that trigger your fear. You've likely tried to "out-think" or "push through" the anxiety on your own, only to find yourself feeling more stuck.

Our Approach: Skills, Not Just Talk

Our approach to anxiety is active, collaborative, and rooted in science. We won't just talk about your anxiety; we will work together to actively build the skills you need to manage it and reclaim your life. Using evidence-based methods llike Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) we will take a structured approach to:

• Understand Your Anxiety Triggers: we'll identify the specific thoughts, situations, and patterns that fuel your anxiety cycle.

• Challenge Anxious Thinking: you will learn practical techniques to challenge catastrophic thinking and develop a more balanced, realistic perspective.

• Reduce Physical Symptoms: I will teach you strategies to calm your body's stress response and ground yourself when you feel overwhelmed.

• Confront Fears Systematically: we will work at your pace to gradually face the situations you've been avoiding, building your confidence and proving that you can handle more than your anxiety lets you believe.

A calmer, more present life is possible. If you are ready to move from managing your life around your anxiety to truly being in control of it, we invite you to get in touch.

Regain Control and Live Without Fear of the Next Attack

A panic attack is one of the most frightening experiences a person can have. It’s a sudden, overwhelming wave of terror that can make your heart pound, your chest tighten, and the world feel like it's closing in. It can leave you feeling shaken and convinced you are losing control, having a heart attack, or even dying.

But the real struggle with panic disorder often isn't just the attack itself—it's the persistent fear of the next one. This fear can cause you to shrink your own life, avoiding places and situations you once enjoyed: highways, crowded stores, important work presentations, or even social gatherings. It’s especially confusing and frustrating when you're a capable person who is used to handling pressure, yet you feel betrayed by your own body's false alarms.

Our Approach: A Clear Path to Calm and Confidence

It is possible to break free from the cycle of panic. Our approach is active, evidence-based, and designed to give you concrete skills to regain control. We will work together to retrain your brain and body to understand that the physical sensations of panic, while terrifying, are not dangerous.

Our work will be structured and goal-oriented, focusing on two key areas:

1. Understanding the Panic Cycle: You'll first learn exactly what is happening in your body during a panic attack—the science of the "fight-or-flight" response. Demystifying the experience is the first step toward mastering it.

2. Building Skills with Exposure Therapy: The gold-standard treatment for panic disorder is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that includes exposure. In a safe, gradual, and controlled way, we will:

   • Break the link between physical sensations and fear. You will learn through experience that a racing heart is just a racing heart—not a sign of impending doom.

   • Challenge catastrophic thoughts. We will work to rewire the anxious thoughts that turn a moment of discomfort into a full-blown panic attack.

   • Gradually re-enter avoided situations. Step-by-step, you will build the confidence to reclaim the parts of your life that fear has taken away.

Panic thrives on fear and avoidance. Our work together is designed to systematically dismantle both, giving you a lasting sense of mastery over your anxiety.

Imagine navigating your day with confidence, trusting your body again, and making decisions based on your values, not your fears. If you are ready to stop living in fear of the next attack, we encourage you to reach out.

Take Back Your Mind from the Demands of OCD

For many intelligent, capable people, OCD feels like a betrayal by their own mind. Your brain, which is usually your greatest asset, has been hijacked by a cycle of intrusive thoughts, images, or urges that feel both nonsensical and terrifyingly real.

You likely know, on a rational level, that your fears are excessive. Yet, you feel compelled to perform mental or physical rituals—rechecking, cleaning, counting, seeking reassurance—to find a moment of relief. This cycle is exhausting. It steals your time, drains your mental energy, and can force you to live in a world of secret rules and relentless anxiety.

Our Approach: The Gold-Standard Solution

The good news is that OCD is highly treatable with the right approach. We use the most effective, evidence-based treatment for OCD: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). This isn't just talk therapy; it's an active, structured, and collaborative process designed to break the OCD cycle for good.

Here’s how ERP works:

• Exposure: In a safe, gradual, and supportive environment, we will systematically face the thoughts, images, and situations that trigger your obsessional fears.

• Response Prevention: At the same time, we will guide you in resisting the urge to perform the compulsive rituals that have been keeping the anxiety alive.

The goal of ERP is to teach your brain a new, powerful lesson: you can handle the distress of uncertainty, the anxiety will decrease on its own, and the catastrophic outcomes you fear will not happen. It is a process of building resilience and proving to yourself that you are stronger than the OCD.

I have experience working with a wide range of OCD themes, including:

• Contamination Fears: Concerns about germs, illness, or feeling "dirty."

• Harm OCD: Unwanted thoughts or fears about harming yourself or others.

• Relationship OCD (ROCD): Obsessive doubts about your relationship or partner.

• Scrupulosity: Religious or moral obsessions.

• "Just Right" OCD: A persistent feeling that things are not in their correct place or an urge for symmetry and exactness.

Freedom from OCD doesn't mean you'll never have an unwanted thought again. It means the thought will no longer have power over you. Imagine the mental space and energy you will reclaim when you are no longer a prisoner to rituals.

If you are ready to do the work to break free from OCD, I invite you to get in touch.

Find Your Way Back to a Fuller, More Engaged Life

Depression is more than just sadness. It's a heavy fog that can settle over your life, draining your energy, stealing your motivation, and making it difficult to feel pleasure in anything—even in the successes you’ve worked so hard to achieve.

From the outside, you may still be going through the motions, meeting your responsibilities at work and at home. But on the inside, you might feel empty, disconnected, or like you’re constantly running on empty. This experience can be incredibly isolating, especially when you're used to being the person who is always in control.

Our Approach: Rebuilding Momentum, Together

Our approach to treating depression is active, compassionate, and grounded in proven science. We will work collaboratively to understand the roots of your depression and, more importantly, to build the skills and momentum you need to break free from it. This isn't about passively waiting for the fog to lift; it's about taking clear, strategic steps to create a more meaningful and engaged life.

Using evidence-based methods from my "toolkit," such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), we will focus on:

• Challenging Depressive Thinking: We will work together to identify and shift the negative, self-critical thought patterns that often fuel the cycle of depression.

• Behavioral Activation: A core part of our work will be to gradually and systematically re-engage with activities that bring you a sense of purpose, connection, and enjoyment, even when you don't feel like it. This is a powerful way to counteract the inertia of depression.

• Connecting with Your Values: We will clarify what truly matters to you and use those values as a compass to guide your actions, helping you build a life that feels authentic and worthwhile.

You don't have to navigate this alone. Recovery from depression is not about "snapping out of it"—it's about learning and applying a new set of skills to manage your thoughts, regulate your emotions, and rebuild a life you love.

If you are ready to take the first step toward feeling like yourself again, I encourage you to reach out.

Heal the Past, Reclaim Your Present

A traumatic experience—whether it was a single event or a prolonged period of difficulty—can leave a lasting imprint. The event may be over, but its echoes can continue to disrupt your life, showing up as intrusive memories, nightmares, or a persistent feeling of being on edge.

For many high-functioning individuals, the effects of trauma manifest as a quiet struggle. You might find yourself avoiding anything that reminds you of what happened, feeling emotionally numb or disconnected from others, or struggling with a sense of foreshortened future. It can undermine your confidence, strain your relationships, and make it feel impossible to truly relax and trust the world around you.

Our Approach: A Safe, Structured Path to Healing

Healing from trauma is a delicate process, and my first priority is to create a therapeutic environment where you feel safe, grounded, and in control every step of the way. My approach is not to force you to relive your past, but to help you systematically process the experience so that it no longer has power over your present.

Our work will be paced according to your needs, using specialized, evidence-based trauma protocols. This process generally involves three key phases:

1. Building Safety and Skills: We begin by establishing a strong therapeutic relationship and building a toolkit of grounding and emotional regulation skills. This ensures you have the resources to manage difficult feelings as they arise.

2. Processing Traumatic Memories: When you feel ready, we will carefully and thoughtfully process the traumatic memories. The goal is to reduce the emotional intensity and physical distress tied to them, allowing your brain to file them away as part of your past, not a threat in your present.

3. Integration and Reconnection: The final phase focuses on integration—reconnecting with your values, your relationships, and a renewed sense of self. This is about moving forward and creating a life that is defined by your future, not your history.

Healing from trauma isn't about erasing what happened; it's about loosening its grip on your life. If you are ready to begin the work of reclaiming your sense of safety and peace, I invite you to reach out.