FAQs

No, I am private pay only. I can provide receipts and/or a superbill for you to submit to your insurance but cannot guarantee reimbursement.

No, I am a trained general psychologist who specializes in working with athletes or those in high-demand performance domains. Although much of my work is focused with athletes, I work with individuals from all backgrounds, no athletic experience/interest needed.

This is typically decided collaboratively based on your presenting concerns and treatment goals and looks different for every person.

As a counseling and sport psychologist, that means I am trained as a general psychologist (think: all things mental health) and have additional training and expertise working with athletes and issues of performance psychology. This often means working with athletes to strengthen their mental game in order to optimize their best performance in their sport. Topics can range from building confidence, to improving focus, to managing performance anxiety, to helping with goal-setting and motivation. Whether you’re recovering from an injury or want to enhance your mindset for competition, sport psychology helps you show up at your best. These skills and tools also expand to ANY kind of performance, so we can often tackle things in your sport environment that can translate to other areas of life as well.

I try to balance the DOING and the BEING of therapy as best as I can. That means I offer practical tools to better understand and manage anxiety and stress, whether they stem from work, relationships, or personal pressures. But I also teach, make space, and support you in sitting with, learning to regulate, accept, and FEEL challenging emotions that you can’t avoid altogether. Together, we’ll explore your stressors, develop healthy coping strategies, and work toward feeling more balanced and in control, while also accepting what you have to simply let be.

Grief is an inevitable, natural process to loss, while depression can involve persistent sadness, numbness, or hopelessness that interferes with daily life that may or may not be prompted by significant losses. If you’re unsure what you’re experiencing, therapy can help you process emotions, identify underlying concerns, and find the support you need to move forward in your life. I am a huge proponent of not pathologizing grief. You may have several depressive symptoms that accompany your grief, but that certainly does not mean you are broken or have “pathology” due to how you are coping.

Athletes face unique pressures, from maintaining peak performance to handling public expectations. Therapy creates a brave space to address the mental and emotional challenges that come with high-performance environments and equips athletes with personalized strategies to manage pressure and stay mentally strong. I approach my work by looking at the entire person. All parts of you are welcome and necessary to address in order to help you feel truly seen, heard, and understood. Without those staples, it becomes very hard to just focus on how to help you navigate pressure. I try to focus on both gains and losses of how the pressure manifests in your life and help you identify what strategies will bring out your best self, help you identify and keep your values in mind, and allow you to feel authentic and proud of how you show up in and out of sport.

Eating disorders can involve extreme focus on weight, food, or body image, restrictive eating, bingeing, purging behaviors, misuse of medication to alter body weight, or compulsive/obsessive exercise. A question I often ask is: How much of your day is spent thinking about food, weight, body image, or exercise? That answer can have profound effects on helping people recognize how much brain space is being taken up. If you wonder what else you may be able to think about, or how much more successful you could be without such intense focus on these topics, it may be a great time to reach out for support.