Short-term, adjunctive, and focused treatment for patients. Consultation and training for providers.
Whether you are a person needing treatment, a provider looking to supplement patient care, or you’re looking for consultation and training - I can help.
Clinical and patient services
Short-term and goal focused therapy
Short-term therapy is time-limited and focused on developing behavioral understanding and skills, to assist you in making changes that you want for yourself. Like in traditional models of psychotherapy people may explore aspects of their identity and story, but with a focus on connecting this to behavioral goals. Possible goals for short-term and focused therapy might include:
Decreasing a problematic coping behavior (e.g. emotional eating, purging, self-harming, avoidance)
Increasing skillful and effective behaviors
A short-term piece of work on a recurrent problem in your life
Contact me if you want to consult about your situation and goals, to explore whether a short-term and focused treatment can be helpful to you.
Long-term psychotherapy
This is what many people think of, as a more traditional model of psychotherapy. Long-term therapy is open ended, and includes many of the same elements of short-term therapy such as exploring your story and the goals you have for yourself.
Even in long-term therapy, my style tends to be active and change-focused. I welcome your inquiry, although usually have less availability for long-term referrals.
Adjunctive treatment
Adjunctive treatment is considered when a person is already in therapy, but additional intensive/specialized services are recommended to supplement therapy. Some common goals of adjunctive skills treatment include:
DBT and coping skills to decrease self harming behavior
DBT and coping skills to stabilize purging behavior
DBT and coping skills to decrease binge eating
Stabilizing suicidality or a worsening depression, with more intensive outpatient support
Therapists refer patients directly to me for adjunctive skills work. Sometimes people contact me themselves to learn more about this work.
Groups
Groups can also be used as adjunctive treatment. I tend to lead groups that are time-limited and focused on specific themes, including depression support, body image and recovery from ED support.
Contact me to make a referral or with interest; I am happy to start groups when there is community interest and need.
Professional services to clinicians
Consultation
Depending on your needs, professional consultation with me might look like:
General clinical consultation to psychotherapists
Specialized clinical consultation, such as on the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder, attachment and personality problems, disordered eating, self-harming behaviors, and DBT informed treatment
Consultation to higher education settings and staff, who are working to support complex students of concern
Consultation to medical providers
I am experienced with all of these versions of consultation, and happy to hear more about your needs to better assess the fit.
Training and inservices
I can provide professional training to groups of clinicians or other health care providers and allies. Examples of past trainings I have led are below:
Suicide risk assessment (and implications for treatment/decreasing risk)
Solution focused and time-limited models in college counseling
Personality disorders (special focus on BPD)
Thinking about disordered eating and reducing community vulnerability (from a public health perspective to lay audiences)
Introduction to eating disorders (tailored to mental health clinicians, or to medical providers)
Working with severe and persistent mental illness
I enjoy this work as a way to support other health care providers, and the depth and breadth of my experience helps me tailor trainings to your unique setting and patient population. I am also open to topics not on this list, that you think I could be a good fit for - inquire further!