Frequently Asked Questions.

Getting Started with Therapy

  • Therapy can be helpful if you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, burned out, or struggling with identity shifts postpartum. If you are experiencing persistent worry, sleep struggles, relationship tension, or difficulty adjusting to motherhood. Therapy can provide support, tools, skills, and strategies and relief.

  • Sessions with me follow the CBT structure. The first 5-10 minutes are spent reviewing your time since our last meeting, and reviewing the skills and tools that you will have practiced. The middle 30-40 minutes are spend diving deep on topics related to your goals, or discovering something new. In the last 10 minutes we will learn a skill or tool to help continue practicing what we discovered in that session.

  • While the length of therapy varies from person to person and dependent on your specific goals, I focus on short-term, goal oriented, solution focused work. Some clients meet their goals in a few months while others like to take a few years diving deep and accomplishing many therapeutic goals along the way.

Postpartum & Maternal Mental Health

  • The involves persistent, excessive worry and feels overwhelming or uncontrollable. It may include racing thoughts, constant “What Ifs” difficulty sleeping, and physical symptoms like restlessness or nausea. If worries are interfering with her daily life, therapy can help.

  • Postpartum OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is characterized by distressing, intrusive thoughts and compulsions in attempt to reduce anxiety. These starts or unwanted and do not reflect your true intentions.

    ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) therapy is highly effective in managing postpartum OCD.

  • Postpartum depression is more than just the baby bliss. It involves persistent sadness, hopelessness, emotional numbness, irritability, or difficulty bonding with your baby.

    Therapy provides a supportive space to process these emotions, develop coping strategies, and reclaim joy and motherhood.

  • Postpartum insomnia is the inability to sleep even when your baby is sleeping. It may be caused by racing thoughts, anxiety, hormonal shifts, or disrupted sleep schedule.

    Therapy using CBT for insomnia (CBT -) can help retrain your sleep patterns and improve rest.

  • Postpartum burnout happens when the mental load, sleep deprivation, and relentless demands of motherhood leave you feeling overstimulated, underappreciated, and emotionally drained.

    Therapy can help you set boundaries, communicate your needs, and find sustainable ways to care for yourself.

  • Matrescence is the psychological and emotional transformation that occurs when becoming a mother. It is similar to adolescence, a time of identity shifts, physical changes, and emotional growth.

    Therapy can help you navigate this transformation and redefine who you are beyond motherhood.

  • Other changes everything. It changes your routine, your relationships, and even how you see yourself.

    If you feel lost or disconnected from your pre-baby identity, therapy can help you explore your values, career goals, and personal fulfillment outside of motherhood.

  • Your mental, emotional, and physical health postpartum are deeply connected.

    Therapy can help support stress management, self-care, body image concerns, building or rebuilding healthy habits, and overall emotional well-being.

    Therapy can help you feel more balanced and in control.

Couples & Relationship Support

  • The Gottman method intake is a combination of four sessions and an in-depth questionnaire.

    The first session is with the couple where we look at your relationship from the moment you met until present day and everything in between.

    Each of you will complete An in-depth questionnaire between the first session and individual sessions that asks about every part of your current relationship.


    The second and third sessions where I meet with each person individually to get an in depth history of your environment growing up, past relationships and how you view relationships in general.

    The forth session where I meet with the couples again to go over everything that we looked at in the previous sessions and the questionnaire and make some goals for our time together.

  • Using the Gottman Method, couples therapy focuses on establishing trust and commitment, rebuilding friendship, seeing the good in your partner, conflict management, emotional connection, rebuilding intimacy and creating a life a shared meaning and support in reaching your personal goals.

    Whether you are struggling with postpartum stress, feeling disconnected, or facing reoccurring conflicts, therapy provides tools to strengthen your relationship.

  • Yes. Therapy is not just for relationships in severe distress. Many couples seek therapy to improve communication deep and emotional connection and intimacy, or proactively prevent future issues.

  • Common method sessions are 80 minutes because the approach is highly structured and involves in-depth exercises to address or relationship dynamics.

    We will discuss issues that happened between sessions, learn a structured conversation to be effective and moving through the conflict, and then have the conversation in session.

    Having longer sessions a last time to move through the exercises and have complete conversations around deep issues where both partners feel supported and heard.

Pediatric Sleep Consulting

  • Sleep consulting provides customize sleep plans for infants and young children to help them develop healthy sleeping habits. Whether your babies struggles with frequent night wakings, short naps, or difficulty self soothing, we will create a plan that aligns with your parenting style and goals.

  • Gentle sleep coaching to me means that I will never ask you to do something that does not align with your parenting style, values or anything you are uncomfortable with.

    I prioritize your baby’s and your mental and physical well-being and am okay with aligning my goals with yours rather than the other way around.

    I help your family establish healthy sleep habits and create a personalized plan that will work for your unique child and circumstance.

  • 1- Hour Consultation:
    Personalized sleep strategies and troubleshooting for the kiddos that have very minor issues.

    1-Week Package:
    Daily communication and tweaking of the sleep plan, plus a follow up call for the kiddos that have minor issue but want support in implementing the plan.

    2- Week Package:

    Daily communication, access to the Rested app to help with continuous support by me, a sleep plan and follow up called to tweak the plan as needed. This plan is for the kiddos who are having a little more trouble with sleep or have multiple sleep issues.

    1-Month Package:

    Continuous support through the Rested app for real time tracking and chat. A sleep plan to make sure we are on the same page and check in calls throughout the month. This package is for the kiddos who have multiple sleep issues and want support until the sleep issues are resolved.

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Therapy Modalities I use

  • CBT is an evidence-based approach that helps identify and reframe unhelpful thought patterns. It's especially effective for anxiety, postpartum depression, and intrusive thoughts by teaching practical coping skills to shift negative thinking and behaviors.

  • CBT-I is a combination of working on sleep habits and working on the underlying reasons why you are not getting sleep.

    We address habits, thoughts, behaviors in a structured and evidenced based treatment.

  • ACT helps you acknowledge and accept difficult emotions rather than fighting against them. It's helpful for new mom struggling with perfectionism, identity shift, or postpartum insanity by teaching mindfulness and self compassion.

  • DVT is a skill space therapy that helps with emotional regulation, tolerating the distress that life throws at you, being effective in relationships, and being present and in control of your mind rather than your mind being in control of you.

    If you are feeling emotionally overwhelmed, overstimulated, or struggle with communication or perfectionism postpartum, DBT strategies can help you regain balance.

  • ERP is the gold standard treatment for postpartum OCD and intrusive thoughts. It helps you face fears gradually while resisting compulsive behaviors or mental checking. It helps you get to a point where your anxiety loses its power.

    If distressing thoughts are consuming your day, ERP can help you regain control.

  • The Gottman method is a culmination of over 40 years of relationship research that has been brought to the therapy space. This approach helps couples strengthen their bond, improve communication, and navigate conflict effectively.

    It helps couples facing postpartum stress, shifting roles, and intimacy challenges.

Logistics & Payments

  • I do take a few insurances in Oregon, California, and Florida.

    If I do not take your insurance, I also provide a super bill for out-of-network coverage.

    There are a few reasons why using your insurance for therapy is not always the best choice. For more information and why to not use insurance if you have coverage click here.

  • Individual Therapy: $200 for a 50-55 minute session.

    Couples Therapy: $300 for a 50-55 minute session.
    $400 for an 80 minute session.

    $100 for an in-depth relationship assessment.

  • Click here to schedule your free 15 minute consultation, or reach out via email or phone to discuss how I can support you.