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I would say that my strengths as a therapist are that I am both emapthic and warm, and, at the same time, I can be direct and forthright and even firm when I need to be. I specialize in eating disorders, substance abuse, trauma, and relationship struggles, and, as such, it is important for me to be able to hold a strong therapeutic frame and boundaries, to be able to be clear when someone is acting out, or being harmful to themselves, or not taking their problem seriously enough. It is my belief that part of my job is to help my patients to understand themselves and to know themselves in a deeper and more embodied way, and so I am always lo understand and to think about what is unfolding in the therapeutic relationship on both a conscious and unconscious level. I am psychodynamically oriented, which means I believe that symptoms such as binge eating, or food restriction, drug or alcohol abuse, anxiety and depression, explosive anger in relationships, represent deeper psychic conflicts that have not yet been understood or worked out, such as an unmet need or longing, a deep loss or trauma or betrayal. I believe in the potential for deep and lasting change to happen in a psychodynamic therapy, where together we work to bring words, images, dreams into being so that these imaginings can shed light where before there was only darkness.
