Frequently Asked Questions
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This work is designed for people who appear to have it together and are exhausted by it.
You are the person others lean on. You function well, maybe really well, and privately you cannot turn your brain off. You know something is off but you cannot point to a reason, which somehow makes it worse. You are successful and anxious. You have tried to logic your way out of patterns that keep showing up anyway. You want to ask for help and do not quite know how, so you research everything first and arrive already knowing the answers, or thinking you should.
If you have done real therapeutic work, understand yourself deeply, and your nervous system is still running the old program in the moments that count, that gap is what this work addresses.
You do not need to have it figured out before we begin.
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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
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.
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Probably, yes. Especially if you are someone who understands yourself completely and still cannot seem to let things go.
You are not someone who avoids looking inward. You have done the work. You know where the patterns came from. You can explain them clearly, sometimes too clearly, and you still find yourself lying awake replaying a conversation from three days ago, or reacting to something and immediately knowing exactly why and being unable to stop. Knowing has not been the problem. Changing has.
That gap is not a personal failure. It is information about where the work needs to go next. EMDR and DBR work beneath the level of understanding, with what the nervous system is actually holding, not just the story you have built around it. The goal is not more insight. It is for your body to stop responding as if the old version of your life is still happening.
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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 again, but by helping the brain finally finish processing what got stuck.
If you have ever walked out of a session feeling like you understood something important and then done the exact same thing by Friday, EMDR works on what that understanding could not reach. You are not going to be asked to explain yourself more. Your nervous system is going to be given the conditions to finish what it could not finish at the time.
I trained in Attachment Focused EMDR through the Parnell Institute in 2021, specifically for relational and developmental trauma. The kind that does not come from a single event but from years of accumulated experience your nervous system never fully processed.
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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 brainstem, the part of your nervous system that is already reacting before you have had a single conscious thought.
If you ever find yourself anxious and cannot explain why, nothing is actually wrong, everything is fine on paper, but your body did not get that message, that is the level DBR works at. It starts before the feeling, before the memory, before the story. With the very first physiological response that happened the moment your nervous system registered something as unsafe.
This makes it particularly useful for the kind of anxiety that feels automatic and disproportionate. The kind you cannot think your way out of because it was never a thinking problem to begin with. I trained in DBR in 2025 and use it alongside EMDR. We will figure out together what fits your nervous system specifically
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Weekly therapy builds steadily over time. An intensive, one to three concentrated days, creates something different. It gives your nervous system enough time to actually move through something rather than get to the edge of it and stop for the week.
If you are someone who finally starts to feel something shift in a session and then spends the next seven days talking yourself back into your head, an intensive changes that dynamic. We stay with it long enough for something to actually land.
Clients often describe moving in a few days what might have taken months in weekly work. We will figure out together which format makes sense for where you are right now. Intensives run one to three days and begin at $2,000. Weekly sessions are $325.
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No. And if you are someone who has already explained yourself many times over, that is probably good to hear.
You may have spent years being articulate about your experience. You have the language, you have the insight, you can tell the story without flinching. And you still cannot turn your brain off at night. More talking has not been the missing piece.
EMDR and DBR do not need the full story to do deep work. They work with what your nervous system is holding underneath the narrative, which is often exactly what words have not been able to reach. You will not be asked to relive anything. You will be asked to notice what is happening in your body as we work. For people who live mostly in their heads, that shift alone can feel like something.
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I am licensed in New York (LCSW, license 088342) and Massachusetts (LICSW, license LICSW1141025) with over 11 years of clinical experience. All sessions are virtual. I see clients across both states only.
If you are located outside of New York or Massachusetts, I am not able to work with you clinically. I am happy to help point you toward someone who can.
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This practice is private pay. Sessions are $325. I am out-of-network and provide superbills upon request.
If you are someone who has already looked up what out-of-network benefits mean and is still not sure whether to make the call to your insurer, it is worth making. Many clients recover a portion of the cost.
Two tools that make this easier:
Thrizer and Reimbursify lets you submit out-of-network claims directly from your phone in a few minutes.
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Book a free consultation. It is a 20 minute conversation about what is bringing you here.
You have already done the hard part. You found this page and recognized yourself in it. The consultation is just the next small step. Not a commitment to anything. Just a conversation.
If this is the work you have been looking for, booking is the only thing left to do.