About Me

Welcome to my clinical practice website. I am a clinical psychologist who works with adults, couples, and teens. I work primarily from a cognitive-behavioral perspective, and have specific expertise in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for individuals, Gottman- method couples therapy, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for depression, anxiety, and binge eating disorders.  

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Areas of Specialty

My areas of specialty include:

• emotion dysregulation and out of control behaviors
• suicidal and self-injurious behaviors
  
• depression and anxiety
• PTSD
• family/marital conflict
  Interpersonal difficulties
  
  

• For the past two years, I served as Assistant Director of the DBT training clinic at UW, under Dr. Marsha Linehan , DBT treatment developer. I was a DBT research therapist and skills group co-leader on a UW clinical trial comparing DBT to supportive treatment for suicidal adolescents.  I am also a clinical supervisor and  guest lecturer at the University of Washington on behavioral treatment approaches.
  
  Currently, I am also a clinician and supervisor at Cadence Child and Adolescent Therapy in Kirkland, where I specialize in treating adolescents at risk for suicide, self injury and other areas of emotional dysregulation, run DBT groups and teach DBT skills to families. For more information review here.
  
  I have been licensed as a Psychologist in Washington since 2012, my license number is PY60262601.

Education and Training

Throughout my career I have specialized in the treatment of out of control emotions and behavior, anxiety and depression, trauma, personality disorders and interpersonal problems. My training includes the following:

-BA Psychology/English -University of Rochester, 2003

-Ph.D. Clinical Psychology - University of Virginia, 2011

-Internship - Harvard Medical School:Cambridge Health Alliance, 2010-2011

-Postdoctoral Fellowship - University of Washington (UW) 2012-2013