Hi, I’m Alex and I am so glad you landed here. I opened my therapy private practice in 2022 and I am pleased to now offer nutrition services with a dietitian. I have continually seen the impact that the physical body has on mental health and vice versa. Partnering with a dietitian feels like a natural progression to improve the course of treatment for all of my clients. 

Experience and Training: I became a licensed mental health professional in 2019 after receiving my direct therapy hours at a school district where I worked with teenagers struggling with mental health problems including depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, self-harm, and more. After I became licensed in 2019, I began working at Cook Children’s Hospital as a therapist specializing in psychiatric transfers of teenagers to appropriate psychiatric hospitals after suicide attempts. I also worked with children hospitalized due to a medical trauma, disease, or new diagnosis that secondarily were struggling with a mental health issue including adjustment disorder, depression, or anxiety.

In these two unique environments, healthcare and schools, I saw that trauma was the underlying component of almost every mental health crisis I saw including homelessness, childhood abuse/neglect, death of a loved one, and so on. In an effort to further help my clients heal, I became trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), which is the most researched therapeutic modality for trauma treatment. I have completed two EMDR trainings and I am proficient in providing EMDR to my clients. 

In addition to  EMDR, I also utilize Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and aspects from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Ego States Therapy. 

I look forward to meeting you or your loved one!