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.
Not all therapy is equal. Learn what evidence-based treatment means, which therapies have the strongest research for teens, and how to ask a therapist the right questions.
Willpower alone can't beat gambling addiction. Learn evidence-based relapse prevention strategies including urge surfing, financial barriers, and cue management.
Some affairs are not about sex, intimacy, or escape. They are about the catastrophic experience of a self that has stopped being reflected back. A Kohutian reading of the validation-seeking affair that refuses the narcissism diagnosis.
Post-breakup nightmares are one of the most common and least understood dream patterns in clinical practice. The dream system processes relational loss through threat imagery, pursuit, and helplessness long before the waking self has organized the loss into a coherent story.
In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association added binge eating disorder to the DSM-5 as a standalone diagnosis, closing a three-decade gap between what clinicians were seeing in the consulting room and what the diagnostic manual permitted them to name. This post reads the DSM-5-TR criteria plainly and answers the three questions patients ask most often when a primary-care referral form prints the criteria in front of them.
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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