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About My Clients
I know what it's like to struggle with feeling safe in your body and not knowing why you feel that way. We together can separate the medical challenges from the mental health challenges. I can help teach you strategies to move through your trauma and eating disorder challenges to remain feeling safe in your body again. We can expand the uncomfortable feelings gently in session to help those feelings move out of your body and not return.
My Background and Approach
I am a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC#7982) in California, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC#2636) in Connecticut, and a Registered Dietitian (RD#1002480), as well as a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Consultant (CEDS-C). I maintain two practices, one devoted to psychotherapy and nutritional counseling in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles and the other to nutritional counseling in New York. I am trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Somatic Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Brainspotting, EMDR techniques, art therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. I use all of my education and experience to tailor each session to the individual client with whom I am working. I endeavor to treat the whole person in my approach, using my background in nutrition and counseling to craft a well-rounded therapeutic program.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe everyone can grow and accomplish their own goals in life. I pull from my own personal experiences with disordered eating and trauma to inform my empathetic approach to my clients’ struggles. My focus is on helping my clients heal, energize, and become aware of their inner strengths by providing a neutral safe space for them to explore their inner landscapes and carve a path forward for themselves. I believe we need to call out and fight against white supremacy, and I believe in and practice my own anti-racist work. I fight against racism, transphobia, ableism, sexism, fatphobia, colorism, tokenism, anti-semitism, ageism, classism, elitism, xenophobia, and islamophobia. In session when these issues come up, we tend to discuss the dangers of them and how they hurt people. I am a member of the LGBTQIA+ community and call out my privileges.