Located in Central Massachusetts, I serve college students and fellow mothers struggling with anxiety disorders, OCD symptoms and behaviors, and navigating the stress and overwhelm of everyday life.
I attended Assumption University for my masters degree in Counseling and have been in private practice since 2008. For many years, I worked with young children with anxiety and their parents. Now that my own children are older, my practice focuses primarily on college-aged young adults and my work with other moms.
I’ve received extensive training in the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy (ERP-T). I draw on both methodologies as needed in my treatment of stressed young adults, anxious moms and those working through OCD
My work with clients leverages the tools I have learned as part of my training, but is grounded in my personal experience as a mother who has experienced anxiety and also parenting children with anxiety
Education:
M.A. Counseling Psychology, 2006
Assumption College
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, 2003
Worcester State College
Some of my Post-Graduate Training:
Treating Anxious Families: Active and Process – Based Approaches to Get Families Moving, October 2023
Helping Children to Grow Up Brave: Evidence-Based Strategies for Helping Youth Overcome Fear, Stress & Anxiety, May 2018
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety and OCD with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), January 2017
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, April 2016
Parenting the Child with OCD, Umass Lecture Series, November 2015
BTTI 2: Advanced Training in Treatment Engagement, Ambivalence and Resistance in OCD, November 2015
ERP for OCD and other Anxiety Related Disorders, Umass Lecture Series, October 2015
Using CBT with Children, Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatric Academy, February 2015
Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI), International OCD Foundation, November 2012
Face Your Fears: How to Conduct Good Exposure Therapy Across Diagnoses, October 2012