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About My Clients
I know how exhausting it can be, trying to connect with therapists who don’t fully understand the LGBTQ+ experience. It’s also frustrating to walk away from therapy feeling like you didn’t learn any new skills or build any new insights. I know this because I've lived it. Full Focus Therapy started with a desire to bring affirming, robust therapy practice to LGBTQ+ adults.
My Background and Approach
Grounded in solid research, DBT is a At Full Focus Therapy, we use the skills from the four modules of DBT, a type of behavior therapy with undeniable success in bringing people out through pain and closer to their life worth living. It stands for Dialectical behavior therapy: dialectical here meaning holding many things true at the same time. Our work is grounded in the philosophy of DBT and we use that guiding philosophy to help people move through anxiety and depression. My first taste of DBT came as a practicum student at Stanford University. I earned my Masters degree and Doctorate at the PGSP-Stanford Consortium, and did my dissertation on developing an LGBTQ+ affirmative family therapy program there. I completed my postdoctoral work at the Chicago DBT Institute, a Linehan-certified comprehensive DBT program. I then moved back to New York where it all began—to open my own private practice.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am committed to providing responsive and culturally-affirming healthcare, moving towards collective care and away from the colonial model of treatment. Like many active members of the queer community, you can find me volunteering with organizations like Gay for Good or perhaps playing DnD. I am fiercely committed to joy as a radical act. In order to live in accordance with that belief, here is a short list of things bringing me joy in the last week: brushing up on my bachata basics at a dance class, snuggling with my two cats, rolling down the car windows on a long road trip to feel the freezing wind, and baking blueberry muffins with a streusel topping.