Licensed professional counselor in Pittsburgh, PA. I specialize in infidelity recovery, eating disorders, gambling addiction, and couples therapy. I work with the patterns that don't resolve with standard approaches, where evidence-based treatment meets 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.
Why do gamblers chase losses when they know the math? Cognitive explanations about probability distortion miss the deeper pattern. Freud's repetition compulsion reveals that loss-chasing is not about winning back money. It is about replaying an old relationship to hope and disappointment that the gambler learned long before they placed their first bet.
Research shows that camouflaging neurodivergence predicts eating disorder severity more than neurodivergence itself. The connection between masking, sensory overwhelm, and disordered eating.
Recognize the 7 behavioral signs of a gambling problem, understand why each one happens neurobiologically, and learn how to assess your risk level.
Test dreams persist decades after graduation because they encode a pattern of evaluation anxiety, not a memory of school. Research shows the dreaming mind uses the exam scenario as a template for any situation where you fear being measured and found insufficient.
Chase dreams are among the most common dream structures, and they are not random. The pursuer in your dream often represents something you are avoiding in waking life, a feeling, a conversation, a part of yourself you have not yet faced. Structural dream analysis reveals what the flight is actually about.
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 → AssessmentMeasures four dimensions of relational health: Calm, Accepted, Resonant, and Energized. About 5 minutes.
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