Licensed professional counselor in Pittsburgh, PA. I work with children, adolescents, adults, and couples across seven clinical areas: child and teen therapy (DBT-A), infidelity and betrayal trauma, eating disorders and ARFID, gambling addiction, couples therapy, neurodivergence, and depth psychology. The common thread is patterns that do not resolve with standard approaches, where evidence-based treatment needs to meet the deeper question of why the pattern exists.
If you're here because something is wrong, you're in the right place.
DBT-A for adolescents struggling with intense emotions, self-harm, and crisis behaviors. Parent psychoeducation and family skills training.
Masking, burnout, sensory processing, and rejection sensitivity. RO-DBT for overcontrol, process-based therapy for individual pattern mapping, and depth work that takes neurodivergent experience seriously.
Specialized treatment for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. CBT-AR, sensory approaches, and family-based work.
Evidence-based treatment that takes gambling seriously as both a neurological condition and a psychological one. Understanding what gambling provides is the beginning of recovery.
EFT and depth-oriented couples work for relationships where the same fight keeps happening or one partner is changing in ways the relationship can't accommodate.
Affair recovery that goes beyond stabilization. Gottman and EFT protocols for the crisis, plus the deeper work of understanding what the affair revealed.
Dreams in which the dreamer acts with authority, helps others, or takes charge of the dream scene sit near the center of the Independent archetype. Christian Roesler's research identifies this position as the one that tracks therapeutic progress more reliably than any other structural dream feature.
Over 60 RCTs support DBT for adolescent self-harm, suicidality, and emotion dysregulation. Review the 2026 evidence, including the BMC Psychiatry meta-analysis.
Gambling isn't just dopamine. It provides something specific: escape from emptiness, a sense of agency, the feeling of being alive. Until you understand what gambling is replacing, recovery stays surface-level.
Standard exposure hierarchies for school refusal work better with DBT skills layered in. Learn a graduated return plan from car ride to full day.
Gambling addiction damages relationships through financial deception and broken trust. Learn how couples recover and what partners need during treatment.
Psychoeducation courses written for the people living with these conditions and their families. Evidence-based, clinician-written, no cost.
Clinician-designed tools to help you understand what you're dealing with. Free, private, no account required.
Screens for gambling-related harm across four domains: financial, emotional, relational, and behavioral. About 5 minutes.
Take the assessment → AssessmentMaps your psychological patterns, including stress responses, interpersonal style, and how you relate to control. About 15 minutes.
Take the assessment → Assessment48-item assessment of eight cognitive processes based on Dario Nardi's research. Best-fit personality type and archetypal function stack. About 5 minutes.
Take the CSI → Assessment SuiteAQ-10 quick screen (5 min), CAT-Q masking assessment (10 min), and RAADS-R comprehensive (20 min). Designed for adults, especially women and late-identified individuals.
See the assessments → AssessmentMeasures four dimensions of relational health: Calm, Accepted, Resonant, and Energized. About 5 minutes.
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