Psychotherapy. In-person. In Wallingford
I help individuals and families who are motivated to change patterns and behaviors but who are frustrated, unsure where to turn and stuck.
I worked a pre doctoral Psychology internship in the Outpatient Counseling Center at Vista Del Mar Child & Family Services, a large community mental health care agency located in Los Angeles California. Here I provided Treatment team oriented care with the support of a training program in order to best meet the needs of a diverse caseload of Individual youth and their family members/caregivers in a communities/agency mental health setting.
Prior to this, I was a clinical trainee for just under two years (first at the practicum level and then in a “pre-internship” at Behavioral Health Hospital in Kirkland Washington. At Fairfax a component of my experience was facilitating brief solution oriented, family meetings with patient in the adult and adolescent partial hospitalization programs. I also gained valuable clinical experiences working with inpatient adolescence and their family member/caregivers.
Insurance:
I am an in-network provider with Premera, Regence Blue Shield, TRICARE, TriWest and Aetna insurances and alld forms of insurance that offer out-of-network benefits. I would be glad to answer any insurance or billing related questions.
I currently offer individual depth-oriented psychotherapy for adults and adolescents (13 years old and up) using psychodynamic and relational approaches in a private practice setting as a therapist with The portage Bay clinic.
I also offer family therapy. My clinical training and approach to family work recognizes that the family unit itself—ratherthan a specific person—is and will be the focus of treatment. I begin by establishing a clear framework for treatment and I will clarify the nature (and my role in) maintaining the therapeutic setting. Sessions will be a space for all family members to explore, test out, try on new ways of communicating. I will be helping each person to move toward more effective ways of sharing personal ideas, beliefs, needs, and concerns.sessions, I attend to both verbal content and nonverbal communication, including vocal tone, body language, periods of silence, and other indicators of emotional engagement or withdrawal.
I certainly recognize that addressing deep emotionally charged issues while all together in the same room can be TERRIFYING. I have been working with children and families in range of professional and clinical capacities since
Begining (or returning) to psychotherapy?
Together we will start by looking at any urgent or immediate reasons you are seeking psychotherapy. It is important that the first few sessions allow you to get a sense of me, an understanding of what I can, and cannot offer and what it feels like when we are together in therapy. I am interested in learning about your social and emotional development, significant past and current relationships, cultural experiences and anything you wish to share to help me form an understanding of who you are and what you wish to change.