I specialize in therapy that helps adults heal from perfectionism, anxiety, eating disorders, body image distress, and obsessive compulsive disorder. My clients are people who value self-growth and self-knowledge. What they want most is self-love. They are smart, capable, high-achievers, but usually think they make too many mistakes to be called a perfectionist. My clients struggle with their relationships with food, with their body, and with being in control. They know what it’s like to feel not-good-enough, anxious, and overwhelmed. When we first start working together, my clients are exhausted from trying to keep it all together, to be thin enough, pretty enough, smart enough, kind enough, friend enough, accomplished enough. They are exhausted from trying to be in control; from trying to be enough. In the therapy space, my clients don’t mind when I challenge them. They appreciate my honesty and they secretly like it when I call them in on their bullshit. You deserve to live life believing that you’re enough.
My therapeutic style is warm, gentle, humorous, engaging, and often quite direct. I value transparency and assertive communication. I practice therapy using techniques from the following evidence-based models: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and Mindfulness. I alternate between process-based and solution-focused techniques. I draw on my background as a yoga instructor when supporting a client’s somatic connection development.
I received my M.S. in clinical rehabilitation and mental health counseling from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017. and have been working with people with eating disorders and body image distress since then. I particularly enjoy group therapy and have developed and run group therapy in higher levels of care (PHP and IOP) and in the outpatient level of care. I am actively working toward my Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS) designation.
Follow this link to my currently available groups: https://cultivatementalwellness.com/group-therapy