I specialize in helping healthcare professionals and others in high stress jobs to recover from work-related issues of overwhelm, burnout, compassion fatigue, and traumatization, and to re-find their sense of passion, purpose, and meaning. I am especially experienced in doing this work with those with high anxiety, ADHD, and/or past trauma history.
I also enjoy working with people who are seeking therapy for help with non-work related issues (like relational disruption or loss, life transitions, and familial stress), including those who might benefit from having a therapist who understands the additional demands and challenges they face in their work environment.
My specialty treatment of professionals in high-stress careers is informed by training and relevant research and theory, and also by 20 years of experience working in a range of healthcare settings. In addition to providing direct services to patients in specialty mental health and primary care clinics, I have supervised and taught psychology externs, interns, and postdoctoral fellows, psychiatry residents, nurse practitioners, and social work interns, and have worked on a number of interdisciplinary clinical teams with physicians, nurses, and allied health practitioners.
Other specialty areas
- ADHD-related issues with executive functioning, self-efficacy, self-regulation, or self-confidence
- Anxiety-related problems of perfectionism, impostor syndrome, people-pleasing, and/or overfunctioning (being overresponsible and overcontrolling of self and others)
- Occupational and social stress and trauma related to intersectionalities of gender, race, sexuality, class, neurotype, and chronic illness
- Historical/intergenerational trauma
- Life transitions
- Consultation and supervision for licensed therapists and other healthcare providers
Populations of special interest
- Adult ADHDers and those whose children or partners have ADHD
- Adults who grew up in homes with active alcoholism, addiction, or other mental illness
- Journalists, writers, artists, and other creative professionals
- People with gender, racial, ethnic, or other identities that are underrepresented in their career fields
- Individuals active in 12-step recovery programs and/or with long-term sobriety
- Those who are the first generation of their families to attend college
- White-identified individuals who want to unlearn/dismantle white supremacy culture and antiBlackness in themselves and in the communities and institutions in which they live and work