Psychotherapy

Anxiety is your body's way of reacting to stress or potential dangers, which often leads to feelings of nervousness or fear. While it's a common and sometimes helpful response, too much anxiety can disrupt your daily life and affect your well-being. It can show up as physical symptoms like a racing heart, sweating, shaking, and trouble focusing, along with mental signs such as constant worry, overthinking, and expecting the worst outcomes. I work with patients experiencing:

Generalized Anxiety
Panic Disorder
Phobias
Social Anxiety

BFRBs are repetitive self-grooming actions like biting, pulling, picking, or scraping of one's hair, skin, lips, cheeks, or nails:

Trichotillomania (hair-pulling)
Excoriation (skin-picking)
Onychophagia (nail-biting)

These behaviors can cause physical damage and individuals often make multiple attempts to stop or reduce them. Treatment for BFRBs typically involves therapy, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or habit reversal training (HRT), to address the underlying triggers, develop healthier coping strategies, and improve overall functioning and quality of life.

OCD is characterized by recurring, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors or mental acts (compulsions). People with OCD often feel compelled to perform these rituals in response to their obsessions, despite recognizing that the behaviors are excessive or irrational. OCD can significantly interfere with daily life and may cause distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other areas of functioning.

Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy is the gold standard for treating OCD. This therapy involves exposing individuals to their obsessions and preventing them from responding compulsively. Many people find that ERP reduces their anxiety significantly, leading to fewer intense fears related to their thoughts over time.

Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) are mental health conditions that can occur during pregnancy or after childbirth. They include a range of disorders such as postpartum... anxiety, depression, OCD, and panic.

Symptoms can vary but may include persistent sadness, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, excessive worry, irritability, changes in appetite or sleep, difficulty bonding with the baby, and feelings of guilt or worthlessness.

Reproductive mental health refers to the psychological well-being of individuals throughout their reproductive lifespan, including preconception, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and beyond.

Treatment involves addressing difficulties that may arise during these stages, including:

Adjustment to parenthood
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)
Fertility challenges
Relationship stress
Third-party reproduction