My Background & Focus
I am a working physician with additional training and licensure offering psychotherapy and medication for adult individuals, and counseling for couples. Well-versed in the durable impacts of trauma I also have training specific to navigating intimate relationships, and difficulties unique to pregnancy and family life. Professional challenges, work-life balance, imposter syndrome, anxiety, or depression, and concerns you bring up around alcohol use are other areas we might explore. I offer EMDR to further facilitate work on overwhelming or traumatic experiences. Together we can work to identify what is helping or hindering your goals and leverage an understanding towards meaningful change. My ongoing work in the perioperative environment gives me unique insight to the issues we all face as clinicians in healthcare and I specialize in this work as a consultant, coach, and therapist.
Know that confidentiality is of the utmost priority in psychotherapy and is protected by law and a rigorous code of ethics. Leave a message on my voice mail, send an email through the contact form, or click the envelope icon.
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“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength”
Sigmund Freud
About Therapy
The psychotherapy relationship is collaborative, empowering, and built specifically on trust developed over time. Engagement will, at times, be a highly vulnerable, emotional experience. The process offers life altering changes in perspective, habits, and assumptions. It can also offer new strategies to help cope with life's inevitable challenges. My work as a physician informs my therapy work with a long history of helping people in vulnerable positions. Also know that some of my training addresses experiences unique to women, such as pregnancy, but that I also welcome work with men. In my role as a physician I also offer medication management for mental health including depression, anxiety, ADHD, and alcohol use. Please find some of the information to which you are entitled as a consumer by clicking here:
"Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes"
C.G. Jung
Services Offered
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Individual Therapy
Individual therapy is a highly personal experience. Despite it still carrying stigma, working with a therapist has the potential to offer life altering change for those who decide to engage. Things can be really hard and sometimes it feels like failure to ask for help. But there is courage in seeking to understand the impact of experiences and emotions. Suffering alone is not a requirement of life. Neither is feeling chronically drained, anxious, angry, or depressed. Therapy can be practical, brief, and problem focused, or more long term and in-depth. I am happy to answer questions about my theoretical approach rooted in the neurobiology of relationship. It begins with a formal gathering of important information which will contextualize and help to identify and guide evolving goals. You can terminate therapy at any time, it's up to you. Should you choose, I look forward to meeting with you to identify your goals and accompany you on your journey.
Couples & Family
Couples and family counseling aims to identify and reorganize the lens through which we learn to understand our closest relationships. We often approach our partners with unspoken assumptions which can lead to repeated arguments, anger, and disappointment eroding love and intimacy over time. Additionally, a marriage and family perspective incorporates the observation that change in one part of the system inevitably changes the system as a whole. Couples and family therapy stands back to witness misunderstandings and unmet needs to bring these into awareness. Communication, intimacy, goals, and busy working lives all interweave to create a unique partnership. Major changes such as having a baby, helping teens and young adults negotiate the world, and other transitions in family life all have under-appreciated impacts worthy of focus. There are many ways for the motivated family or couple to work towards a healthier, more satisfying, and durable connection.
Medication Management
If you are working with me in a therapy relationship and medication appears indicated, we will discuss this together and navigate collaborative decision making. This may include medication for depression, anxiety, ADHD, or alcohol use. This involves in-session assessment, identifying and discussing any potential benefits of a formal psychological evaluation, treatment, and follow up appointments. Please reach out with questions.
Coaching Services
Psychotherapy and coaching are very different modalities with different training, educational, and licensing requirements. The former works with a wide range of presentations including medical diagnoses. Coaching is prohibited from working with medical diagnoses and focuses exclusively on areas outside this purview. Well-being, work life balance, navigating professional relationships, understanding and developing boundaries, and conflict management skills are all areas amenable to coaching. While psychotherapeutic skills can inform a coaching relationship, coaches cannot provide psychotherapy. If you choose to pursue coaching with me, know that the highest legal and ethical standards apply to my practice, but that is not a standardized or legal requirement of the coaching relationship. My coaching services at Vital Support Coach are conducted exclusively online for assistance navigating your professional environment and challenging relationships. I offer a per-session arrangement towards developing and implementing your goals and you are free to discontinue work at any time. ​​
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My Session Fees:
Individual $185
Couples/Family $225
Coaching $250
Consultation TBD
Please Note: I do not take any insurance
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