FAQs

Is this therapy a good fit for me?

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This work is designed for high-functioning adults who have already done therapy, have the insight, and whose nervous system is still running the old program when it matters. If you have done the work, understand yourself deeply, and your body is still responding the same way in the moments that count — that gap is what this work addresses. You do not need to have it figured out before we begin.

Who is this not a good fit for?

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This practice is not the right fit if you are:

  • In active crisis or need crisis-level support

  • Seeking a diagnosis or psychiatric medication management

  • Looking for couples therapy

  • Located outside of New York or Massachusetts

  • New to therapy and looking for foundational coping skills

  • Primarily seeking support for addiction, eating disorders, or psychosis

If any of these describe your situation, I am glad to help point you toward someone better suited to what you need.

What is EMDR and how is it different from talk therapy?

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EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is an evidence-based therapy that works directly with how the nervous system stores distressing experience. Not by talking through it repeatedly, but by helping the brain finally finish processing what got stuck.

Talk therapy helps you understand the pattern. EMDR helps the nervous system stop running it. Clients often describe it as: I still remember what happened, but my body no longer responds as if it is still happening.

I trained in Attachment Focused EMDR through the Parnell Institute in 2021, an approach specifically designed for relational and developmental trauma. The kind that does not come from a single event but from years of accumulated experience the nervous system is still carrying around.

How can I contact you?

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Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a body-based trauma therapy developed by Dr. Frank Corrigan. It works at the level of the deep brain, specifically the brainstem structures that fire the moment something grabs your attention, before emotion kicks in and you have had a chance to think.

Most trauma approaches start with the memory or the feeling. DBR starts earlier than that. It tracks the original sequence of physiological responses that happened the moment the nervous system registered a threat or an attachment disruption. That first body response is the anchor DBR works with.

For clients whose anxiety feels automatic and physical, whose nervous system is already reacting before the mind has caught up, DBR gets underneath what other approaches sometimes miss. It is particularly well suited for early relational trauma, the kind that shaped how your nervous system learned to respond long before you had words for any of it.