Our Services
I’m here to support you in making meaning of your internal world so that you can cultivate the life you want to live.
EMDR Therapy
(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
When you’ve tried talk therapy, self-help books, or other types of therapy and you still feel like something is holding you back. EMDR is a brain-based, heavily researched and effective therapy that gets to the root of the patterns and belief systems that keep you from living the life you want.
Talk
Psychotherapy
My therapeutic approach centers around helping you address core roots of the pain you experience. I help guide you in a compassionate and supportive way that will create change for you and your thinking patterns over time.
Intensive
EMDR Psychotherapy
The new type of therapy to receive the help you need quickly. Instead of weekly sessions, we’ll create a customized treatment program to meet your needs and provide you with a personalized treatment workbook to compliment your sessions.
Pricing
BCBSNC, Cigna, Oscar Health, United Healthcare, Oxford, Aetna
Health Savings Account (HSA) cards accepted.
A credit card is needed to reserve your initial session.
Insurance:
Private Pay:
Initial session (90 minutes): $175
Subsequent sessions (50 minutes): $175
It is your responsibility to know what your insurance will pay and to contact your insurance to find out what your mental health benefits are. Our standard rates are subject to change without notice.
Please Note:
Cancellation notice is required outside of 24 hours of the time of your appointment or the full private-pay fee is charged to the card we have on file for you.
Cancellation Policy:
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Intensive Therapy
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Talk Psychotherapy
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Virtual Therapy
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There’s something magical
that happens in therapy.
At first, you feel nervous to open up to someone who you don’t know. It feels foreign and anxiety-provoking. You may even have thoughts about how to get out of going to therapy or canceling.
When you attend your first session you start to realize that your therapist isn’t going to bite;
rather, they are welcoming, understanding, and actually want to know you—
not the “you” who gets you through the day, but the real you.
The first session isn’t as bad as you thought it would be (how are so many things in life like this?)
Then the second and third session come along and you start to realize that you feel seen by this person, they get it. It feels good to be known in your pain and accepted.
After a few months you really feel comfortable with your therapist. You look forward to processing and know that you’ll be supported to make the decisions that feel good to you.
I hope that you take that first step into therapy. You won’t regret it.
EMDR Therapy
(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy)
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and is a brain and body-based type of therapy that focuses on reprocessing memories and experiences that have been stored maladaptively.
When we have caregivers that can’t attend to us in the way that we needed as children- through neglect, abuse, or even smothering- we can grow to have distressing symptoms in adulthood. Certain trauma wounds, whether they are a one-time experience such as a car accident or a scary plane flight, or ongoing traumatic experiences can also leave us with distressing symptoms.
EMDR uses certain mechanisms in the brain to reprocess these experiences, memories, and even the absence of certain experiences that we needed as children. A technique called bilateral stimulation is used which gives sensory input to both sides of the brain and body and can be done using eye movements or tapping.
EMDR is a full therapeutic modality that consists of 8 phases: history taking, preparation, assessment, desensitization, installation, body scan, closure, and reevaluation. The eye movements that we do in the desensitization phase of EMDR are just one part of the process.
EMDR has been proven effective for children, adolescents, and adults of all ages and has been widely researched as an effective evidenced-based trauma treatment.
EMDR can also be used to treat other problems such as chronic pain, panic disorder, eating disorders, traumatic birth experiences, addiction, phobias, and even performance enhancement to use in athletics, business, and relationships.
Just like any other therapeutic style, EMDR works best when you have a safe connection with your therapist. Since therapy can be vulnerable and painful at times, as your EMDR therapist, I take time to make sure that we connect in a true way and that you feel that your boundaries and needs are of the utmost importance. Part of the beginning phases of EMDR is cultivating this connection and making sure your needs are met.
As your EMDR therapist, I will guide you the whole way throughout our sessions, and you can rest assured that we will be walking the path together.
Talk Psychotherapy
My therapeutic approach centers around helping you address core roots of the pain you experience. I help guide you in a compassionate and supportive way that will create change for you and your thinking patterns over time.
Intensive
EMDR Psychotherapy
Intensives are for clients wanting relief & results faster than the weekly session model allows.
Flexibility in how you receive therapeutic support is important, and the traditional model of weekly psychotherapy is shifting to meet your needs. Traditional talk therapy is a long-term support system to help you work through life challenges over time.
But two things keep coming up for you:
Your schedule is demanding and unpredictable, making a weekly therapy appointment feel overwhelming.
You feel like you need a lot of help, and quickly. The idea of spending months in talk therapy makes it feel impossible to ever feel better.
(Intensive Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy)
Your Intensive Includes:
Pre-consultation interview to assess for candidacy, as well as target unpleasant beliefs, body sensations, emotions, or images from which you are seeking relief.
Personalized treatment workbook, which allows you to work on your treatment goals before, during, and after our intensive sessions.
A customized treatment program with targeted treatment goals. Therapy with Amy is done either in person or virtually, often for 3-9 sessions (1.5 to 2 hours each session).
Post-treatment interview to assess and support your adaptation to positive changes from treatment.
Long-term intensive therapy is available if you want long-term support toward several treatment goals.
Intensives are not reimbursable by insurance and are private pay only. Intensive pricing starts at $499 and increases based on time needed.
Healing Methods
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EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and is a brain and body-based type of therapy that focuses on reprocessing memories and experiences that have been stored maladaptively.
When we have caregivers that can’t attend to us in the way that we needed as children- through neglect, abuse, or even smothering- we can grow to have distressing symptoms in adulthood. Certain trauma wounds, whether they are a one-time experience such as a car accident or a scary plane flight, or ongoing traumatic experiences can also leave us with distressing symptoms.
EMDR uses certain mechanisms in the brain to reprocess these experiences, memories, and even the absence of certain experiences that we needed as children. A technique called bilateral stimulation is used which gives sensory input to both sides of the brain and body and can be done using eye movements or tapping.
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Your “inner child” is the part of your subconscious that holds the messages you were given at the early stages in your life. When you take time to acknowledge and “re-parent” your inner child- you are healing yourself by creating new neural pathways in your brain to replace old messages you received.
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Somatic therapy aims to integrate the body and mind by tuning in to what you are feeling in your body that is manifested through trauma. Somatic therapy helps you, through resources, to regulate your reactions internally and externally.
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Polyvagel theory is incorporated into EMDR and other therapies to focus and explain feelings of safety/threat and the nervous system. Your nervous system is a huge component to overall health and when you’re not doing well, your nervous system reflects your internal state.
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Internal Family Systems theory (or IFS for short) is a type of therapy that, like inner child work, focuses on parts of ourselves that have been created throughout our childhood (and adult life) that hold emotions, belief systems, and certain behaviors we perform for safety or protection. The idea that we all hold different parts of ourselves that get activated is based in neuroscience- different neural networks hold different feeling states, behaviors, memories, thoughts, and experiences. When we become aware of these states we are able to change them.
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