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.
Some affairs are not ruptures in the marriage. They are the marriage's first unambiguous communication after years of silence. A clinical framework for the exit-protest affair and why couples therapy is the wrong intervention when this is the configuration.
The anorexic who recovers is not the same person who became ill, and the transition between the two is a grief no treatment manual names with precision. This essay describes the identity loss at the center of anorexia recovery through Bruch's clinical phenomenology, Woodman's archetypal reading, and the nondual literature on dissolution, with specific attention to the clinical approaches that make room for the grief instead of arguing with it.
DBT-A adapts standard DBT for adolescents with a shorter duration, family skills training, Walking the Middle Path, and parent phone coaching. 60+ RCTs support it.
Marion Woodman read anorexia nervosa as a refusal of matter that operates at the archetypal level beneath the specific family system and culture in which the illness emerges. This essay traces Woodman's reading through her principal books, situates it against the medieval fasting women Caroline Walker Bynum recovered from the archive, and describes what the archetypal frame adds to evidence-based treatment when it is held carefully and without pop-Jungian reduction.
Blaszczynski's pathways model identifies 3 types of problem gamblers. Learn which type you are and why it matters for treatment and recovery.
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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