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INDIVIDUAL AND COUPLES THERAPY IN PA
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY IN PA
Our nervous system intricately creates our lives, functioning behind the scenes to shape our daily thoughts, emotions, and actions. Rooted in early experiences or trauma, past imprinting drives unconscious physiological reactions and beliefs, defining how we relate to and interact with the world. Sadly, this process often leads to distressing ways of being that no longer serve us in our present reality.
I know you don’t want to live in the past, especially if previous experiences with traditional talk therapy felt like aimlessly reopening old wounds. Perhaps you were suggested connections to the past that seemed unrelated to your present, or you made breakthroughs of self-insights but struggled to translate them into tangible change.
I promise there’s another way. In our Individual Therapy sessions, we don’t linger in the past; instead, we transform the past to liberate your present, and create your future.
During sessions and in between sessions, often include “homework” and tangible action steps. This can take the form of powerful visualizations, experiential exercises, practicing difficult conversations with a loved one, sending that risky text or email, making a phone call you’ve been putting off, asking out your crush, asking for a promotion, cleaning, writing letters, wearing that new daring outfit—you name it.
Through these practices, you’ll gradually build a bridge between emotional processing and meaningful behavioral change. Working together, we’ll embark on a journey that combines emotional nurturing with tangible, life-transforming actions, paving the way to a more bountiful existence.
A Safe Sanctuary to flourish
There’s immense healing power in being truly seen during moments of pain. Our unconscious selves often protect us from difficult emotions, but our bodies carry the weight; like a tight chest when rejected or the knot in your stomach during conflict. Somatic therapy bridges this gap, helping you access and release these deeply held patterns.
I use my intuitive ability to sense the unconscious stories and behaviors you may not yet see-like “I’m not enough” or “I have to be perfect to be loved”, or even the realization that you might be in an unaligned job or relationship. I gently guide you to uncover them for yourself. I don’t impose my view but help you process and integrate these insights in your own time. In a space rooted in safety and trust, like a warm hug for your nervous system.
I can also see your light, inherent truth, intrinsic worthiness, and magic, clear as day. My job is to gently hold up a mirror for you see it, too, and bloom
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1:1 Therapy is for you if:
You struggle with complex trauma, relationship anxiety, relationship uncertainty, relationship OCD, betrayal trauma, anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, perfectionism, self-esteem, high functioning anxiety, depression, ADHD, emotion dsyregulation, or are a highly sensitive person.
You’re scrolling TikTok, and some coach says, "If he wanted to, he would." Now you’re side-eyeing your relationship or dating life, wondering if you should leave.
You see another picture-perfect couple on Instagram and immediately start tallying up all the things your partner doesn’t do—no surprise dates, no deep emotional talks, and, let’s be real, the dishes are still in the sink. You wonder if you’re expecting too much or if there’s someone out there who’d just get it.
You think about how different things might be if you had met your partner now, with everything you’ve learned. Maybe you wouldn’t have made the same choices.
You catch yourself deep-diving into celebrity breakup headlines on a slow Sunday morning, half-convinced the universe is sending you a sign about your own love life. Even when you know that the proof should come from your own heart.
From the outside, it looks like you have it together—great job, polished Instagram, people who admire you—but inside, you feel like you’re constantly trying to measure up to something that’s always just out of reach.
A car cuts you off in traffic, or your coffee spills, and suddenly it’s not just about that moment. It’s a whole spiral about how nothing ever goes right.
You snap at someone you love over something small, and later, the guilt hits. You didn’t mean to, but lately, everything just feels too much.
You want to be the kind of person who flows through life with ease, but every tiny thing—a late bus, an awkward text, a moment where you don’t have the perfect response—feels way bigger than it should.
You sit in a quiet moment at work, wishing you could swap a mundane meeting for time to work on that podcast or book you want to write, but your inner critic drowns your creative voice in self-doubt.
You feel torn between the life you desire and the one you believe you’re “supposed” to have, with each decision burdened by anxiety and uncertainty about what will truly make you happy.
In relationships or dating, you’re always scanning for what’s really going on. You want to trust your gut, but half the time, you don’t know if it’s warning you or just reacting to old wounds.
You’ve done talk therapy before, and sure, you walked away with insights, but nothing actually changed. You know your patterns inside and out, but knowing hasn’t been enough to break them.
On the outside, you look capable and put together. On the inside, you’re tired—tired of trying so hard, tired of feeling like real change is always just out of reach.
Now imagine this:
Sitting across from your partner or date in a café, sipping coffee, and actually feeling connected. Or walking away from something that wasn’t right without second-guessing yourself.
Spilling coffee on your shirt and just moving on instead of making it mean something about your entire day.
Actually making progress on the thing you keep putting off—writing the book, starting the podcast, doing the thing that’s been sitting in the back of your mind for years.
Scrolling less, feeling proud more. Looking at your life and feeling a quiet, steady sense of "I built this. I’m exactly where I’m meant to be."
And instead of just thinking about what needs to change, you’re actually living it. Your patterns shift. Your life starts to feel like yours.
COUPLES THERAPY IN PA
They left the dirty dishes in the sink AGAIN.
They didn’t send you that good morning text you asked for.
They became upset at something you said and needed space.
They told a joke that you don’t find funny.
They refused to kill the cockroach.
Suddenly your heart leaps into your throat. There’s a knot in your stomach. It’s hard to breathe. The anger/sadness/fear bubbles inside and your thoughts swirl and spiral. You open your phone and you’re met with a million people on the internet telling you to “Never settle!” and “If they wanted to they would!” Like a tug-of-war in your mind, you vacillate on whether or not they’re “the one” for you. So you demand, demean, criticize, threaten to leave, with one foot always out the door. Or you grasp on tightly, sacrificing yourself for fear of losing them. When the dust settles you feel a wave of shame wash over you for how you reacted and you are able to see your partner and the truth of who they are more clearly. But then the cycle repeats all over again.
Conscious Blooms: Transforming Relationship Triggers into Rooted Healing for Connected Couples
According to object relations theory our early attachments with our parents form our internal representations or “templates” of ourselves, others, and our relationships to others. When we have attachment and relational wounds (hint: we all do) we end up transferring or projecting our early formed attachment “templates” onto others. And nothing brings up our past wounds like our romantic relationships, where they become our new primary attachment figures
Discover a path beyond resentment and conflict patterns. Utilizing my unique integrative approach, our therapeutic space becomes a fertile ground for transforming triggers into opportunities for healing and self-discovery. Break free from negative cycles and instead, we will nurture new ways of relating that lead to the intimacy, compassion, and profound connection you desire in your relationship.
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Couples Therapy is for you if:
1. You constantly worry about being betrayed, abandoned, or hurt.
You run around hypervigilant trying to read your partner and any signs of potential deception. You constantly obsess and make up scenarios in your mind. You may become an FBI agent and comb through their social media for any indication of disloyalty or compare yourself to their ex’s. Or you may interrogate them, set ultimatums, and demand constant reassurance of their intentions.
2. You avoid intimacy and closeness.
On a conscious level you desire a profound life partner but subconsciously the idea of commitment and deeper connection with others scares you. You may feel a “cringe” or “ick” in your body and sensations that cause you to contract. You fear being hurt, abandoned, betrayed, rejected, or that no one will ever fulfill your needs and standards.
3. You constantly receive your partner’s emotions or perceptions as a threat or attack.
You take your partner’s emotions, perceptions, or relational requests as personal or meaning something about you and the relationship. You constantly feel activated and like you have to explain and defend yourself. You feel criticized and like relationships require more than you are able to give.
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Everything you need to Thrive, not just Survive: Transform from Struggling to Flourishing
Weekly 60-minute virtual sessions
Investment:
Individuals: $175 per session
Couples: $200 per session
I currently take Aetna, Cigna, Oscar, and United Health Care Insurances and offer Courtesy Billing for Out of Network Reimbursement.
See FAQ’s for Insurance Information
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, in the state of Pennsylvania and hold two Master's in both Counseling and Mental Health Services and Professional Counseling from the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, I have trained under world-renowned childhood trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté in the Compassionate Inquiry Method.
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I am in-network with Aetna, Cigna, Oscar, and United Health Care. For out-of-network clients I offer Courtesy Billing and will help my clients get reimbursed on their behalf.
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My therapy services are virtual. For in-person coaching services on The Big Island of Hawaii please see my Coaching Services page.
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Working under the scope of a Therapist, with my Therapy Services, I am operating under a state and licensure board.
Working under the scope of a Coach, with my Coaching Services, I am NOT acting as an agent, doctor, nurse, therapist, publicist, accountant, financial planner, lawyer, or any other licensed or unlicensed professional. The services provided consist of coaching, which is not directive advice, counseling, or therapy. Clients understand that any information provided as part of the services is NOT medical, nursing or mental health advice and is NOT meant to take the place of seeing licensed health professionals. Therefore, I am not operating under or associated with any state or licensure board or insurance panel.