Specializing in:

Trauma

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Have you recently experienced trauma or are the effects of trauma re-emerging in your life? It can have debilitating effects on the central nervous system, changing the way we process/recall memories, impacting your daily life.  

  • First responder experiences

  • Medical trauma

  • Early childhood trauma

  • Systemic trauma

  • Intergenerational trauma

  • BIPOC experiences

  • Intimate partner violence

  • Physical abuse

  • We’ll create a safe space to explore your experience of trauma at a pace that feels comfortable and safe for you. You’ll learn and practice specific techniques to help you regulate the nervous system from the intense feelings that often follow a traumatic event.

    We will utilize the most evidence based and effective form of trauma therapy including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy to help you reprocess the thoughts, feelings and sensations related to your traumatic experience(s).

Pregnancy, Postpartum and Parenting

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The pregnancy and postpartum time can be fulfilling and happy times, but these can also be challenging times that don’t meet your expectations or desires. These seasons bring change that we can’t always prepare for, and can test us in ways we never thought possible. Therapy can help make these transitions easier.

  • Miscarriage

  • Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders

  • Traumatic birth experience

  • Parenting challenges

  • NICU parenting

  • Loss of a child

  • Identity and role confusion

  • Relationship strain 

  • We’ll create a safe space to witness your experiences and how they have impacted your life, acknowledging, and normalizing the challenges you’ve met on your perinatal journey.

    I may provide practical strategies to help you tolerate discomfort and manage intense thoughts and feelings. We may also address typical challenges that can emerge in your relationships, thereby improving connection, communication, and boundaries within them.

    In our sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to validate your experiences and come to acknowledge and appreciate the strengths and resources you have within you to continue your journey.

Reproductive Health, Infertility and Third Party Reproduction

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Trying to grow your family can be an overwhelming experience of ups and downs. Struggling to conceive and coping with the uncertainty of reproductive medicine can feel unbearable and you may find it touching many aspects of your life. I am here to support you.

  • Persistent feelings of sadness

  • Anxiety or depression

  • Social isolation

  • Relationship strain with self and your body

  • Relationship strain with partner and others

  • Challenges understanding and accepting your journey

  • Difficulties navigating options or treatments

  • Grief surrounding your infertility journey

  • Feelings of loss that can’t be seen

  • Challenges for single parent starting their fertility journey

  • Overwhelm with the infertility experience

  • The tug of war of hope and hopelessness

  • I’ll provide a safe space for you to express your feelings surrounding your reproductive health journey. We’ll work together to understand your experience and how it impacts your relationship with self and its impact on your life.

    You will expand your capacity and learn how to cope with feelings of helplessness, disappointment, and grief. We’ll talk about what you can control, and how to tap into your personal strength and the resources that are available to you. You will find ways to continue your journey with courage by supporting yourself with healthy thought patterns and habits.

Grief and Loss

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Although common, death and loss are difficult to experience and can feel simply unbearable at times. When you lose someone or something vital to your existence it can lead you to question life, your place in it and you may experience feelings of helplessness and despair. I am here to support you through these difficult times.

  • loss of a relationship

  • loss of ability

  • loss of security

  • how to support a loved one through loss

  • Tragic death of a loved one

  • Pending death

  • Loss of self or others

  • ambiguous loss(es) or intangible loss(es)

  • I’ll provide a safe space for you to express your feelings and raw emotions without requiring permission, apologizing, or minimizing them. We’ll work together to understand your loss, how it impacts you daily, and how it will touch your future.

    As we work together, you’ll gain skills to help you express and process your loss, soften overwhelming feelings of grief, and utilize your personal strengths and resources. You will find ways to continue to live through your grief.

Chronic
Pelvic Pain

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Living with chronic pelvic pain can be debilitating. Not only does it impact your physical health, but also your mental health, deeply touching you and your relationships. Addressing chronic pelvic pain and its consequences with a trained therapist can help you improve your quality of life.

  • Impacts of pain on sexual desire

  • Diagnosis and treatments

  • Decreased emotional wellbeing

  • Reduced quality of life

  • Change in relationships due to pain

  • Sexual pain

  • Physiological distress

  • Pain management

  • We can work together to better understand how our bodies store certain experiences. Whether you have been working with other professionals towards a diagnosis and/or receipt of a diagnosis. We can develop practical ways to reduce your symptoms and alleviate your pain. In session we can create space to understand how your pelvic pain has impacted your relationship with yourself and others, including your partner.

    By understanding that our body stores our experiences and often times when other avenues for resolving physiological issues have not been successful it is important to take a look within. To assess and understand how your nervous system may be holding on to imprints from the past which may be responsible for pelvic pain. You can also learn how to cope with your pain mentally and emotionally allowing you to live life on your terms.

Life Transitions

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Life is full of beginnings and endings. Some new beginnings can be exciting and still overwhelming. And just like beginnings, endings can be difficult to accept. In life, you may encounter times of transition that will influence your personal growth, sense of wellbeing and control. Adjusting to change can be difficult and cause a significant amount of stress. As you anticipate or experience change, you may struggle with emotional turmoil, let me support you as you make these transitions.

  • Impacts of change on relationships

  • Preparing for the birth of a child

  • Change of habits and routine

  • Burnout

  • Career changes or retirement

  • Family changes

  • Immigration or moving

  • Divorce

  • To understand the impact of a transition we must make space for acknowledging our experience with change. Together we will peel back all the layers to understand what exactly is changing, how this change feels and will impact your present and future and why this is being felt in this way. Oftentimes we don’t have an opportunity to reflect on all these transitions yet we definitely can feel them in our mind, body and spirit. We may discuss practical ways you can support yourself through current or upcoming change, making it easier to experience. We can discuss ways you can approach change in a way that is most comfortable for you and will allow you adequate adjustment time.


    If you’re struggling with a major life change, we can address the stress and panic that can come with this, supporting you with changes of habit.


    If you’re experiencing persistent stress, you can learn ways to reduce stress levels so that you can adapt to the change you are experiencing with more ease.

Self-worth is so vital to your happiness if you don’t feel good about you, it’s hard to feel good about anything else. — Sandy Hale