Empowering Growth, Connection & Collaboration
I am a clinical psychologist in Montgomery, Ohio offering therapy, mediation, and collaborative divorce services to help individuals, couples, and families navigate emotional challenges and resolve conflict in more constructive ways.
You Might Be Here Because…
You feel stuck in patterns that are not working
You are overwhelmed by stress, depression, or emotional ups and downs
You are facing a difficult co-parenting relationship, separation, or divorce
Your teen is struggling and you are not sure how to help
You have experienced past trauma that is impacting your current life
You want a neutral professional to assist in resolving family conflicts
You need help and support in navigating life changes
You are having difficulty communicating with your partner and want to improve your relationship.
You want therapy that leads to real change, not just conversation
How I Can Help
Therapy for adolescents, adults, and couples
Support through divorce and co-parenting transitions
Collaborative divorce services
Mediation for divorce, co-parenting and elder care decision-making
Therapy
I provide therapy to adolescents, adults, and couples. My specialty areas include depression, bipolar disorder, self-harm, divorce, stress management, adolescent development and life transitions. I also enjoy working with LGBTQ individuals and couples.
I believe that therapy should be more than rehashing problems. I view you as a collaborator in setting concrete goals and working towards positive life changes and growth. I will be a supportive cheerleader, while pushing you to think about your life from a different perspective and to work towards a better version of yourself. I tend to be directive, when needed, helping you to avoid “spinning your wheels” and guiding you in a different direction.
I offer only high-quality treatment, supported by research. The process is focused on both accepting oneself, while also developing more effective ways to cope, as well as changing patterns that are not working for you. This tends to work best with individuals who wish to be active participants in treatment.
Mediation and Collaborative Divorce
Family problems typically involve strong emotions, and the process you choose can have a lasting impact on your relationships with family members. While going to court will ultimately resolve legal issues, it often causes irreparable damage to relationships. I am a highly trained collaborative divorce professional and mediator, available to assist in resolving family disputes outside of court. I began working in the collaborative divorce process and mediation after seeing the negative and long-lasting results of conflicts on families. My goal is to provide a safe respectful space and guidance for people to have difficult conversations and to reach compromises that allow them to move forward. Choosing one of these processes can be helpful in developing co-parenting relationships and preserving parent and sibling dynamics in Elder Care Mediation
I specialize in helping people to divorce in ways that help to minimize the emotional impact on themselves and their families. I also assist in ongoing parenting concerns, post decree or with unmarried parents, such as modifying parenting plans, changing schedules and making parenting decisions.
I provide Elder Mediation services to facilitate difficult conversations about housing, health, safety and financial concerns to allow families to make these critical decisions. In my eldercare mediation work I often partner with an attorney co-mediator to allow us to use our combined expertise to address both the emotional and legal nuances of these complicated situations.
My Approach to Therapy
My primary approach is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which tends to focus more on here and now situations, with an emphasis on both how our thought patterns affect our emotions and on developing new behavioral strategies. I also use Dialectical Behavior Therapy or DBT, which is designed to address self-harm, extreme emotional sensitivity, anger management, and impulsivity. The goals of DBT are greater acceptance of emotions while finding more effective methods of coping with them. I am also trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is a highly effective short-term research-based treatment for those who have experienced trauma.
Flexibility and Accessibility
My office is centrally located and convenient to most areas of Cincinnati, Ohio.
My practice offers a concierge level of service and access. When you are an established client, you will have the ability to schedule your own appointments as well as communicate with me easily and securely through my online portal. You also have the option of scheduling different session lengths, depending on your needs. Online video appointments are also available if that is your preference. I am available for regularly scheduled therapy visits, one time consultations and services on an as needed basis.
