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I am licensed psychotherapist and based in Washington, D.C.

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I approach my clinical work with a broad perspective—seeking to understand and treat all aspects of the human experience. As both a licensed psychotherapist and yoga teacher, I offer a unique framework that allows us to focus acutely on the relationship between body and mind.

I recognize that for a lot of people, the body hasn't always been a safe place. Whether as a result of an eating disorder, self harm behaviors or trauma, there can be a lack of trust and safety in one's own skin. My goal is to help people to have more calm and centeredness within themselves—to help people come home to themselves. Additionally, I strive to help people have more stability and connectedness in their relationships. I place a strong emphasis on building both emotional and physical safety in the therapeutic relationship. In addition to building trust in therapy, we will focus on concrete skills such as grounding, breathing, and interpersonal effectiveness.

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Eating Disorders Treatment

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We'll work together to deal with the symptoms of your eating disorder – the restriction, the binging and/or the purging, overexercising and constant body evaluation. Beyond that, my hope is to help you understand the emotional function that the eating disorder has played for you and help you to find healthier ways to meet those needs.  Often eating disorders are one piece within a larger picture that has to do with not liking yourself, not feeling competent and effective at other things, and not knowing how to get along with other people. I understand this and want to help you to move beyond symptom reduction to true and deep healing.

Trauma Treatment

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Because eating disorders and trauma are often so inexorably intwined, I've moved beyond my specialization in eating disorders to study the more global impact of trauma on the body and mind. We might be an especially good fit if your trauma has caused you to have unsteady or unstable relationships, mood swings, numbness or self-harm. I orient myself in attachment based therapy, DBT-informed therapy and Yoga Informed Therapy. I've also acquired specialized training in trauma sensitive yoga, somatic experiencing and very soon will have completed training in EMDR. 

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Group Therapy

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I adore group. In many ways, individual therapy is limited to the feelings and thoughts that get stirred one on one. But group is abundant. It's expansive and incredibly powerful. Group can serve as a tool for making contact with our early attachment. For most of us, we developed our relational blueprint in early childhood -- a set of skills and guidelines for how we exist in relationship to others. This is where group comes in. This attachment repair group offers a unique opportunity to access dynamics from our original family of origin in real time. It's a place for folks who are interested in knowing themselves more intimately, and understanding more about how they relate to others.

Yoga 

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As a yoga teacher and therapist, I deeply understands the effect of eating disorders, trauma, anxiety and depression on the body and mind.  In addition to addressing thought patterns and feeling states, I help to work with these conditions on a body level. I've found that this additional consideration in therapy has been tremendously helpful for the people that I work with, whose difficulties in living are often centered on the body.

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