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I work with adults (ages 18+) who feel stuck in patterns they intellectually understand but can’t seem to change—whether that’s binge eating, substance use, self-criticism, or cycles of anxiety and avoidance. Many of my clients are thoughtful, self-aware people who’ve tried therapy, read the books, and done the work—but still feel something unresolved beneath the surface. I specialize in helping clients bridge the gap between what they know and what they feel, working with the body, nervous system, and subconscious patterns to create lasting change. I also work with couples and individuals navigating ideological or relational divides, particularly those shaped by rigid belief systems or cultural expectations.

I am licensed in Arizona.

My approach draws from mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, and acceptance and commitment therapy. I’ve completed training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Phase 1 Brainspotting, and Level 1 Gottman Method Couples Therapy, along with a graduate research project on mindfulness-oriented recovery enhancement for opioid misuse and chronic pain.

There was a time when I sat in a therapist’s office in utter silence for the better portion of anhour-long session. The quiet thickened, my unease grew, and still, I had nothing to say. We had already identified the problem, discussed solutions, and explored my personal history, with little impact. I had run out of stories to tell.

Before I became a therapist, I was a teacher. Before that, a tutor. And perpetually, a student. When therapy didn’t offer what I had hoped for, I did what I knew best: I studied.

I read everything I could find on the human mind and the way we heal, and completed a bachelor's in psychology, and a master's in social work.

Alongside my studies, I volunteered for a crisis line, assisted group therapy at long-term residential, and then interned at a first episode psychosis program, then a substance use and eating disorder treatment canter. I assisted with, then facilitated, group, family, and individual therapy.

And I discovered something that filled the gap I had felt in my own therapy and became central to how I now work with clients:

So much of what we experience extends beyond the thinking mind and into the body and subconscious.

Clients often come to me with some version of, “I know what I need to do, but I just can’t get myself to do it. I need to stop [fill in the blank] drinking, binge eating, obsessively worrying, or beating myself up for my failures. But something in me won’t let me change.”

In session, we get to know what that “something” is, how it evolved, and what it needs in order to let us live more fully. As we do, clients become more hopeful, less stuck, and better able to translate what they know intellectually to what they feel at a gut level.

My approach draws from mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, and acceptance and commitment therapy. I’ve completed training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Phase 1 Brainspotting, and Level 1 Gottman Method Couples Therapy, along with a graduate research project on mindfulness-oriented recovery enhancement for opioid misuse and chronic pain. I'm also the author of Binge Eating Demystified and host of the podcast EDeology: The People Behind Today’s Eating Disorder Treatment Landscape.

The conditions I work with most are anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and psychosis. I also have a deep passion for relationship counseling, especially in helping people navigate political and ideological divides. This interest also guides the focus of my podcast, which creates dialogue around divisive issues within the eating disorder professional community. So much of

my own childhood was influenced by an ideologically driven fracture in the Jewish community I grew up in, and I have found that dialogue around these belief systems can give us a really deep window into ourselves and into each other.

If you’d like to learn more about working together, please reach out to schedule a free, 15 minute phone consultation.