Individual Therapy

My Treatment Approach

I work from a relational, psychodynamic, trauma-informed, and social justice-focused lens:

  • Relational: I emphasize the importance of relationships, including the therapeutic relationship, and their influence on how you see yourself and others. 

  • Psychodynamic: I consider how your past life experiences might be influencing your current emotions, thoughts, beliefs, and relationships, and believe change occurs when we become aware of our entire life narrative to make decisions for our future.

  • Trauma-informed: I focus on three phases of trauma treatment that emphasize safety/stabilization, trauma processing, and integration of therapeutic progress into daily life. I believe it is crucial in treating complex trauma and dissociation to concentrate on what safety means for a client. I also think about different internal “parts” (i.e., child vs. adult).

  • Social justice-focused: I believe that racial, gender, sexual, neurodivergent, and other minority groups experience societal discrimination, stigma, and/or violence, and that we should always be fighting for their rights to be heard and recognized.

Trauma-Informed Therapy in Media, PA

I have also been trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Acceptance-Commitment Therapy (ACT), and will incorporate behavioral interventions (e.g., mindfulness, grounding, cognitive restructuring, values work) when appropriate. 

Areas of Specialization

  • Complex trauma/post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

    • Emotional abuse

    • Sexual abuse, assault, or rape

    • Religious/spiritual abuse (e.g., cults, extremist ideologies)

    • Physical abuse

  • Dissociative experiences

  • Borderline personality disorder (BPD)

  • Gender, sexual, and racial identity exploration and stress

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Disordered eating and body dysmorphia

  • Relationship struggles

  • Self-harm

  • Emotional dysregulation (i.e., mood swings)

  • Grief or loss

Trauma, narcissistic, White fragility, psychoanalytic, gender, sexual, minorities, borderline personality disorder (BPD), dissociative identity disorder (DID)

Do You Offer Telehealth?

I am only accepting new clients who are able to meet in person a majority of the time.

However, I believe that the ability to meet via telehealth when needed (e.g., feeling sick, inclement weather, difficulty finding childcare, too far away in location) is very valuable, so I am open to telehealth as a backup when meeting in person does not work out on a particularly day or for a period of time. I primarily use video chat for telehealth purposes, but when that doesn’t work out, I also utilize the phone. It's also important to me to consider which method of telehealth feels most safe to a client.

In person, telehealth therapy
Therapy in Media, PA

“Trauma healing is not a linear process. It involves peaks and valleys, setbacks and progress. The key is to keep moving forward, even on the difficult days.”

— Jasmin Lee Cori