Maybe your anxiety looks like chronic worry. Maybe it's intrusive thoughts and images that horrify you. Maybe you spend enormous amounts of time analyzing, anticipating, second guessing, and researching to try to make the "perfect" decision.
Together in therapy, we can create a space to understand both what keeps the anxiety going and why your mind learned to operate this way in the first place.
What we may work on:
Therapy with me is highly individualized. It starts with a comprehensive interview so we can better understand your difficulties, strengths, and how therapy can help. Treatment is tailored to your unique goals, needs, and pace.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and down-to-earth. It's also evidence based, using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) to help you change the beliefs and behaviors that are keeping you stuck.
But our therapy together is not just a collection of coping skills.
Using psychodynamic interventions, we also pay attention to the deeper patterns underneath the symptoms: how you learned to relate to uncertainty, responsibility, achievement, relationships, and yourself.
The goal is not to stop caring, stop thinking deeply, or give up the traits that are so you - conscientious, high achieving, thoughtful. It is to help you have more space and freedom within yourself, so you can choose how to spend your time, attention, and focus. It is to help you build a life you want to be living, not the one anxiety dictates.
It may be a good fit if you want help with anxiety and OCD, and you also want to understand yourself more deeply.
It may be a good fit if you appreciate a psychologist with expertise who is active and engaged. You may want someone who will help you recognize patterns and gently challenge your blindspots, rather than simply listening and nodding.
I offer therapy to those in Pennsylvania and any of the 30+ states in the PSYPACT Commission. You're able to easily access therapy in the comfort and privacy of your own home through a secure video platform or phone.
Initial appointments are $250 and subsequent 45 minute sessions are $180, to be paid electronically via credit card at time of service.
My practice is in-network with Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (which includes various out of state BCBS plans).
All other insurance companies are out-of-network. You will be provided a receipt you may submit directly to your insurer for potential reimbursement.
Sessions cancelled with less than 24 hours notice are unable to be billed to insurance and you are responsible for the full session fee.