She/Her
Licensed Therapist, LICSW
In therapy, we're a team. While I'm an expert in OCD, one of my favorite concepts in treatment is that you're the expert in you. I share information so you develop that expertise in yourself, so it has lifelong value. Outside of work, I love birdwatching—I have several bird feeders—dogs, and cooking. I lived in California for 19 years, and my sister and I had our own little catering company for Hollywood productions.
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With NOCD, you're in very good hands. You are respected. You're the expert. There's so much great support across the board, and there are a lot of evidence-based treatments. We're going to have lots of discussions about treatment planning, revising, and fine-detailing it along the way.
I was meant to be a therapist. I took a psychology course in college and just had such a passion for it that I pursued a degree. It's just something that just felt right.
OCD therapy is a good fit for my personality. It's focused on accepting things for what they are and living with uncertainty. It's about having difficult conversations. I've worked in a number of sensitive professional situations; there's no difficult conversation I haven't had.
Trauma, especially childhood trauma. For several years, I worked in the realm of child protective services, foster care, and adoption. I worked in Indian Child Welfare and with commercially sexually exploited children. As an adoption worker, I worked with military personnel from Camp Pendleton doing extensive home studies, talking with them about PTSD from military life, and how they planned to manage that while adopting a child.
You're in very good hands. You are respected. You're the expert. There's so much great support across the board, and there are a lot of evidence-based treatments. It's important to have good communication with me. Know that we're going to have discussions on when it's time to move up the hierarchy, and when it's time to back down. We're going to have lots of discussions about treatment planning, revising, and fine-detailing it along the way.
It's hard to share your thoughts with a stranger; I can respect that. If your intent is to get better, part of that process is to share. I'd ask, what can I do to make you more comfortable? How can we begin the conversation in a slow, steady way, so we can let discomfort dissipate on its own and work toward more open, fluid conversations?
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