What We Treat
Interpersonal Difficulties, Challenges Regulating Emotions, Suicidal Thinking or Behavior, and BPD
People who have a borderline personality disorder (BPD) often struggle with:
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Intense emotional responses and trouble managing them
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Impulsivity
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Feeling hopeless, empty, or numb
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Chronic suicidal thoughts, urges to self-injure, and maybe a past of acting on some of these urges
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Difficult interpersonal relationships
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Regularly feeling misunderstood and invalidated by others
If any of this describes part of your experience, then you may have some symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) can help.
Learn more about DBT and find out how it can help you find ways to better manage, control, and express your emotions
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterized by the presence of unwanted, intrusive thoughts or images that pop up and are hard to get rid of (i.e., obsessions), followed by the behaviors or routines that you might do to try to feel better and reduce your distress (i.e., compulsions).
People with OCD often find themselves doing some of the following:
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Thinking or doing the same things over and over to try to feel better and more in control
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Knowing that compulsive rituals are not logical, yet you feel you have to do them anyway
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Consistently searching for certainty or reassurance by asking others the same questions repeatedly
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Spending excessive amounts of time researching a topic so that you can feel you are one hundred percent sure about whatever you fear.
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Frequently avoiding things that might trigger an anxiety response
If any of these relate to you, then you might have OCD. Through Exposure and response prevention (ERP), you can learn to stop living this way and gain more control over your own life.
OCPD, Perfectionism, and Procrastination
While being a perfectionist has its benefits, it can also make life unmanageable. People who have perfectionistic tendencies that become unhelpful might:
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Find themselves extremely driven by achievement and hold themselves to impossibly high standards.
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Find themselves constantly avoiding or procrastinating
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Regularly redoing, reread, or double-checking everything they do to make sure it’s perfect
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Struggle to make decisions because they need to make the “best” choice
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Have rigid standards or beliefs that most others do not share
If any of these relate to you, then you might have clinical perfectionism or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD).
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help you:
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Identify cycles of perfectionism
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Respond with more flexibility
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And learn to become more accepting of yourself, while still achieving just as much - if not more - than you were before
Anxiety Range Disorders
Anxiety can present in many different forms and seems to latch onto different elements of your life, creating a wide range of challenges. While anxiety takes many forms and can impact your life in various ways. CBT can help you better understand the factors that are maintaining your anxiety, as well as how to change your behaviors and learn to face your fears so you can start living without barriers holding you back.
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General Anxiety Disorder (GAD)If you’re someone who is chronically worrying, ruminating, and always trying to get ahead of a problem you might have GAD.
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Panic Disorder (PD)If you’ve had a panic attack (which is a terrifying experience by definitions!) and find yourself constantly worried that you might have another, avoiding the situations, places, and sensations that remind you of that event, then you might have PD.
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Social Anxiety (or performance-related anxiety)If you are someone who is generally worried about how you are being viewed by others, have a hard time performing in front of anyone else, or maybe even struggle to meet new people or put yourself in unfamiliar situations, then you may have Social Anxiety.
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Specific Fears and PhobiasIf you’re generally not anxious, but find that certain objects or situations (like dogs, spiders, driving, flying, etc.) consistently make you afraid, then you might have a specific phobia.
Some of the types of anxiety we treat:
Depression
People with clinical depression often feel:
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A lack of motivation or joy, even when doing things that they used to love
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Sadness, numbness, or hopelessness
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Feeling hopeless about the future
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Strong urges to withdraw or shut down, that you just can’t seem to get past
CBT can help you better understand your depression, and learn what is maintaining it. Most importantly, CBT can help give you the tools to get out of depression in the long term and get back to your life.
Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs)
Sometimes people engage in grooming behaviors that are helpful in small amounts but can be harmful or debilitating if overused. If you find that you are pulling your hair, biting your nails, or picking your skin to the point that you have caused pain or damage, treatment might be helpful.
All of these behaviors have been categorized as body-focused repetitive behaviors, or BFRBs for short. These are really grooming habits that have become deeply engrained and can be very challenging to stop on your own, even if you want to and even if you know that it’s causing you pain. That’s why I’m here to help!
A CBT treatment for BFRBs called Habit Reversal Training (HRT) can be helpful and give you back your control.
Adult ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
ADHD is extremely common and makes it hard for many people to maintain attention and stay organized. If you’re an adult with ADHD, then you probably have experienced the following:
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Challenges maintaining attention
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Difficulty following through on tasks or plans, you start things and leave them unfinished
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Struggle with planning or staying organized
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Impulsivity
If any of these experiences resonate with you, you might have ADHD. CBT treatment can help identify and address challenges with executive functioning (the root of challenges with ADHD) and give you the tools needed to better manage impulses and time.
