Approaches I Use
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) — always at your pace.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps you develop a healthier relationship with difficult thoughts and emotions while building a life guided by what matters most to you. The goal isn't to eliminate anxiety, sadness, or fear — it's learning that you can experience those emotions without letting them control your choices.
- Making room for difficult thoughts and feelings, instead of fighting them
- Getting clear on your values — the direction you want your life to go
- Cognitive defusion: recognizing thoughts as thoughts, not facts
- Committed, meaningful action even when you don't feel ready
Attachment-Based Therapy
Our earliest relationships shape how we understand ourselves, other people, and connection itself. Attachment-based therapy explores those patterns with compassion and curiosity — why certain relationships feel especially difficult, why trust can be hard, and how to develop healthier, more secure ways of connecting with yourself and others.
- Understanding where your relationship patterns come from
- Building greater emotional awareness of what's underneath a reaction
- Practicing communication and boundaries that feel safer
- Developing what's often called "earned security" in relationships
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) is a specialized, evidence-based form of CBT that helps you change your relationship with anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and compulsive behaviors — most established for OCD, and adaptable to a range of anxiety-related concerns. Exposures are carefully planned and adjusted to your needs, so we work at a pace that's challenging but manageable.
- Gradual, individually-planned exposure to what triggers anxiety
- Response prevention: learning to sit with discomfort instead of the compulsion
- Well-established for OCD, and adaptable to phobias, panic, and social anxiety
- In addition to virtual sessions, In-person ERP Intensives are available near Bluffton, SC beginning Nov. 2026
