Licensed Clinical Social Worker,
Registered Art Therapist,
EMDR Practitioner
Open, accepting, and nonjudgmental therapy for adults.
Areas of experience include:
The way our minds and memories work together is a beautifully complex system. There is so much happening in our busy days that it’s hard to track every feeling with its source. Sometimes, feelings can get unplugged or cross-wired with other feelings and experiences. For many of us, untangling our day-to-day experiences and putting them into words can be a difficult and perhaps frightening process. Talking may not be enough to help us find the source of our feelings. Art therapy and EMDR provide additional tools for understanding and expressing ourselves while resolving disturbing or uncomfortable issues.
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Art Therapist, I offer my clients the stability of a clinical background in conjunction with creative and flexible therapeutic modalities. I believe that by exploring and expanding on your existing strengths, it is possible to find solutions to the issues that bring you into therapy.
I specialize in treating the symptoms of trauma (anxiety, fears, phobias, nightmares, flashbacks) using Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR is a remarkably effective tool for resolving traumatic or painful events from the past that continue to affect you today. EMDR can bring relatively quick relief from troubling feelings and memories. It does not erase the painful memories, but rather, takes away their physical and emotional impact.
EMDR might be useful for you if you have been feeling “stuck” and unable to “get over” certain events or feelings; you find yourself repeating patterns throughout your life that are damaging to you or the people you care about; you have experienced a significant traumatic event or a series of hurtful incidents that continue to influence your feelings and behaviors. The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has endorsed EMDR as an effective treatment for PTSD.
I have over 16 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and families in a variety of settings, including community-based mental health agencies, prisons and immigration detention centers, families’ homes, schools, international social service agencies, and psychiatric hospitals.
