I specialize in working with women navigating burnout, anxiety, and trauma. Many of my clients are high-functioning on the outside, but feel overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck in limiting patterns underneath. Often, the women I work with end up in the virtual chair across from me due to conditioned patterns of people-pleasing, over-responsibility, difficulty setting boundaries, emotional suppression, and poor or non-existent self-care.

Our work will focus on helping you understand the patterns beneath these struggles, reprocess them so you can heal, re-calibrate your nervous system, so you can feel more grounded, confident, and motivated in your daily life.

You don't need to have experienced a single, major event to benefit from trauma therapy. Many limiting patterns evolve over the course of several small events or conditioning from childhood.

If you often feel anxious, overwhelmed, stuck in limiting patterns, and like your nervous system is always "on," trauma-informed therapy can help you understand and shift those patterns.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a therapy backed by research that helps your brain process and your nervous system heal from overwhelming or distressing experiences.

Unlike traditional talk therapy, EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help connect these distressing memories that are "stuck" in your nervous system to your Adaptive Information Processing system. This processing allows you to release emotions from your body and shift limiting patterns, so you can move forward with ease and confidence.

I use EMDR, as well as several other approaches, to help you heal. EMDR is just one therapy that may be incorporated into your treatment when it feels appropriate to your treatment goals.

Talk therapy helps you understand your "good girl" beliefs and patterns that are keeping you stuck. You may gain insight into where the "good girl" mentality came from, how it shows up, and strategies to manage it. Sometimes, you will have to talk about and relive past distressing experiences.

EMDR therapy, on the other hand, goes further by helping your brain to reprocess the distressing experiences that created the "good girl" patterns to begin with, so they no longer trigger the same emotional and physical responses. Furthermore, EMDR allows your brain to heal itself, without necessarily reliving the painful memories.

With talk therapy, you might spend months, or even years, venting or talking why you feel stuck and practicing coping strategies.

With EMDR, you target specific memories, like a moment when your parent's love felt conditional on achievement or a time when you were praised by a teacher for not expressing your emotions, and reprocess them using bilateral stimulation. The result is more than just understanding the root of your "good girl" conditioning, but embodied change. You don't just know intellectually how you need to change, but the nervous system is updated and actually believes it. Many clients can feel shifts in weeks or months that discussion alone can never achieve.

Yes, I only provide online therapy to clients residing throughout New York and California.

Virtual therapy is just as effective as in-person therapy. Research shows comparable outcomes for treating trauma, anxiety, and burnout.

Many clients actually prefer online therapy because they feel safer processing difficult material and vulnerable emotions from the comfort and privacy of their home. Online therapy also eliminates the need to operate a vehicle or navigate public transportation immediately following a session when you'd prefer to engage in self-care or re-grounding. Virtual sessions are also convenient because you eliminate commute time and can schedule between meetings and other responsibilities. You can attend from your office, home, or even while traveling.

Therapy looks different for everyone. Some clients come for one targeted goal, while others present with more complex patterns and conditioning and prefer to be in therapy longer for deeper work.

That said, my approach is rooted in healing. You won't need to be in therapy for years like talk therapy. Many clients notice significant shifts and improvements in as little as 6-12 weekly sessions, while others with more complex histories benefit from 6-12 months of work.

Changes often happen in layers: you might notice behavioral shifts (like setting boundaries, or engaging in some self-care) before underlying beliefs fully transform. The goal isn't just temporary symptom relief, but lasting change.

We'll regularly assess your progress and check-in with your goals to ensure the treatment is creating the healing you're seeking.

"Good girl" conditioning can manifest differently for different women. However, generally, women in our society have historically been expected to be obedient, suppress their needs and emotions, and be perfect mothers, wives, daughters, friends, and employees. Some women were also conditioned to believe that love, attention, and affection were conditional on people-pleasing, perfectionistic, over-responsibility, and over-giving patterns.

Gender-based pressures, discrimination, and traumas can further impact the "good girl" conditioning and the expectation for women to "do it all" without complaint and make it look easy. There are a zillion things on women's to-do lists everyday, ranging from being successful at work, running a home, and caring for loved ones.

No wonder women are burning out and suffering from mental health issues at higher rates than men! For example, anxiety impact 23% of women compared to 14% of men.

With so much demand, there isn't much space carved out for women to try new things, make mistakes, and take care of their own needs. And "good girls" are also conditioned to feel guilty if we dare to engage in self-care. Women are conditioned to believe that they are weak if they can't figure things out on their own, or called b*tchy or selfish if we speak up about our needs and emotions.

Therapy is a space for you to be curious and open with your emotions, rewire the "good girl" conditioning, so you experience less loneliness, anxiety, and burnout in your life. You'll feel connected and supported, which can open up your life to new, authentic possibilities, outside of societal, cultural, and familial norms and expectations.

Intuition is your "gut feeling." It's that little voice inside of you telling you that something has to change or guiding you to make certain choices.

Unfortunately, intuition can get suppressed and ignored on top of the "good girl" conditioning, external pressures and expectations, overthinking, feat, and survival responses. Often, your anxious brain wants you to believe its the "real" you. However, intuition speaks through the body and spirit. Your intuition is the true self.

Through therapy, you will let go of emotional baggage from your body and rewire the "good girl" conditioning in your brain, so you can learn to listen to your intuition. You'll be better able to discern the difference between thoughts and intuitive wisdom. You'll start pausing before making decisions to see what your intuition is telling you. You'll build a life that feels truly aligned.