Licensed associate professional counselor in Pittsburgh, PA. I work with children, adolescents, adults, and couples across six clinical areas: child and teen therapy (DBT-A), infidelity and betrayal trauma, eating disorders and ARFID, 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.
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.
Expressive writing and cognitive-behavioral therapy are not in competition; they are doing different things. A clinician on what each modality targets, the evidence base for each, and when to use one, the other, or both.
A clinician on the intersection of dream-work, expressive writing, and Imagery Rehearsal Therapy for recurring nightmares. What ERRT and IRT teach, where written rescription fits, and how a depth-psychological read changes the work.
A tiered, clinically sequenced set of writing prompts for trauma survivors. Low-arousal regulation prompts before exposure prompts; explicit stop-points; integration prompts at the close. The format most journaling-prompt listicles do not provide.
A Pittsburgh clinician on what forty years of expressive-writing research actually shows for trauma, where the Pennebaker paradigm holds and where it fails, and how a depth-psychological frame changes the clinical use of the method.
Finding a genuinely sex-positive or kink-affirming therapist requires specific questions. Here's what to look for, what to ask, and what the red flags are.
Psychoeducation courses written for the people living with these conditions and their families. Evidence-based, clinician-written, no cost.
Interactive contemplative guides built for daily use. Concept atlas plus timed practice sequences, not a PDF to scroll. One live now, more coming.
Clinician-designed tools to help you understand what you're dealing with. Free, private, no account required.
Maps 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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