How I Can Help
Specialties
Compassionate support for life’s challenges
Difficulties in life are inevitable. Sometimes, they are overwhelming and too hard to handle alone. You may wonder if you are ever going to feel better. Yet I believe life-affirming change is possible. Together, we can help you not only survive your challenges, but to thrive as a result of the empathy, insight, healing, and connection in a therapeutic relationship.
While I work with patients on an array of life’s challenges, I have specialized training in working with the following:
Couples
Couples therapy – whether in a dating, partnership, pre-marital, or marital context – explores what is making it difficult to be connected to your partner. Together, we compassionately work through unhealthy communication patterns, resentment, disappointments, and/or insecurities to enable a trusting, loving relationship that fosters respect, understanding, appreciation, and fulfillment. Learn more
Immigrants, International Students and Professionals, First-Generation Citizens
Living and working in a country different from the one in which you were raised is exciting but also can be challenging. Even when succeeding professionally, you may feel alone or isolated. Nonverbal communication, cultural nuances, and relational interactions might be quite different than those you grew up knowing. For these reasons, the excitement often wears off, leaving feelings of overwhelm, stress, frustration, or homesickness.
Or, you may have been raised in the U.S. with immigrant parents, straddling two or more sets of cultural values. It can be confusing to understand, value, and integrate these divided aspects of yourself and embrace the richness of your totality.
As a therapist, I am particularly attuned to these difficulties and passionate about providing culturally sensitive treatment. I worked with international students, scholars, and professionals for 10 years prior to becoming a psychologist, and I understand the importance and value of talking about racial, cultural, and religious differences.
Eating Disorders
When suffering from an eating disorder, life can become restricted to anxious thoughts and behaviors around food and body. You may cease to live with abundance by avoiding time with others, exercising excessively, becoming a slave to your routine, and losing interest in many aspects of life. I can help you to (re)learn how to truly take care of yourself and create a mindful connection to your heart and body. I’ll provide gentle guidance and encouragement to help you replace your unhealthy relationship to food and your body with nourishing emotional, relational, and cognitive changes.
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses with a combination of biological, physical, physiological, psychological, societal, and familial factors. I encourage a team approach to your recovery and collaboration with psychiatrists, physicians, and dieticians as needed to provide comprehensive treatment.
