If you avoid feared situations,

you have come to the right place.

Maybe you don’t think of yourself as someone with “severe anxiety.” After all, if you don’t engage with your fears, you almost never have to feel uncomfortable.

You’ve built an entire set of workarounds that help you avoid discomfort, even if they’re costing you.

Workarounds can look like:

  • Driving 10 hours instead of flying because “it’s just easier”

  • Staying in a job that isn’t right because interviewing feels unbearable

  • Deciding that working a job isn’t for you because you can’t risk burning out again

  • Telling yourself you’re “not focused on dating right now,” because all of the steps of dating feel like too much

  • Avoiding routine activities like: medical care, leaving the house, restaurants, driving, because it’s too distressing

Exposure therapy can help you stop avoiding.

Why am I like this?

Avoidance can be fueled by many different anxiety-related patterns, including:

  • Phobias (fear of flying, driving anxiety, emetophobia, needles, heights, choking, etc.)

  • Panic disorder and panic-related avoidance

  • Agoraphobia

  • Health anxiety / medical anxiety

  • OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

  • Relationship OCD (ROCD)

  • Social anxiety

  • Generalized anxiety disorder with a severe presentation.

  • Trauma responses (PTSD, C-PTSD)

  • Perfectionism and fear of failure

  • Burnout-related avoidance (work avoidance, school avoidance, task paralysis)

  • ADHD + Autism symptoms like executive functioning issues, demand avoidance, and procrastination can lead to avoiding feared situations. See how I work with ADHD here.

You may not know which one fits best. Most clients find me because they’re Googling the experience. Why can’t I make myself go back to work? Why do I avoid relationships? How do I get over my anxiety when I drive?

Stop avoiding with Exposure Therapy.

I specialize in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) therapy, an evidence-based therapy and the gold standard for OCD, anxiety disorders, and phobias.

ERP is a structured, gradual process of facing feared experiences.

We will use timers and coping skills to make exposures digestible, increasing intensity until we reach the scariest thing you avoid.

Over time, your brain learns: I can handle this.

How I work

My style is structured, warm, and practical. We move at a pace that’s challenging and sustainable.

You can expect:

  • A clear plan

  • Step-by-step exposures, starting with the easiest

  • Compassionate accountability

  • Real-life practice so progress actually sticks

Multiple diagnoses and complex cases.

I’m trained in neurodivergent affirming care and specialize in multiply diagnosed individuals.

If you have some combination of ADHD, autism, OCD, phobia, PTSD/C-PTSD, generalized anxiety, or body focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) you may find my approach is a nice match.

Background + Experience

I have my Bachelor’s in Social Work and Master’s in Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to working for myself, I worked in the non-profit sector serving youth and adults in the immigration system, education, child welfare, hospice, and community mental health. I’m autism and PDA informed (pathological demand avoidance/pervasive driver autonomy).

I’m certified in somatic parts work and a certified clinical service provider for ADHD. I am also exposure response prevention (ERP), prolonged exposure (PE), and habit reversal training (HRT) trained. I work with trauma, loss, and grief in addition to diagnosis specific care.

My lived experience includes my ADHD and my neurodiverse family. I’m also LGBTQIA+ affirming, neuroaffirming,  and striving to be an anti-racist therapist. I am delighted to be a therapist for therapists.

Therapy meetings are 100% virtual.

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Get your life back from avoidance.

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Take a listen to my appearance on the ADHDifference discussing multiple diagnoses.