Develop your skills. Deepen your confidence. Grow in community.

True clinical growth happens in practice—not just in theory. My training approach is designed to give therapists a place to engage deeply with real challenges: sitting with difficult emotions, working through therapeutic ruptures, and addressing the underlying dynamics that sustain symptoms. By blending evidence-based methods with depth-oriented, experiential learning, I help clinicians strengthen their skills, deepen their confidence, and sustain their presence across complex cases.

This is not a one-size-fits-all model. Some clinicians come seeking consultation for confusing cases or integrative approaches to OCD, while others want to refine their use of attachment and psychodynamic frameworks. Many are simply looking for a professional community where they can continue to grow into their identity as a therapist.

Wherever you are in your clinical journey, my role is to help you discover your growth edge and move toward it—with clarity, confidence, and the support of a community committed to becoming better together.

Experiential Training Groups

Learning is most impactful when it’s embodied. These small-group cohorts go beyond case discussion by using recorded case content, role play, and guided experiential exercises to help you expand your intuition, sharpen your interventions, and practice in-the-moment flexibility. You’ll leave not only with new concepts but with the felt experience of applying them in real time.

OCD Specific Training: Integrating Attachment Dynamics

When standard methods–like Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)– fail, it is often because the symptom is serving a meaningful function in the client’s inner world. Obsessions and compulsions frequently emerge as coherent responses rooted in attachment-related, non-conscious memory systems—strategies learned early to manage overwhelming emotions or unmet relational needs. Clients rightfully react to exposures with emotional overwhelm and resistance–it feels like you’re taking away a lifeline they’ve relied upon.

In these consultation offerings—available individually or in group formats—we explore how to integrate behavioral techniques with psychodynamic and attachment-focused methods to address both the surface symptoms and their deeper emotional facilitators. Together, we examine how early relational learning shapes compulsions, how reassurance seeking can reenact old attachment longings, and how to bring these patterns into awareness while continuing to apply interventions with precision.

The goal is to help clinicians recognize the function and coherence of OCD symptoms, navigate resistance with compassion, and guide clients toward both symptom relief and deeper emotional freedom.

Advanced Group Training for Therapists

Core Skills Group

For clinicians earlier in their training or looking to strengthen foundational skills, these groups focus on:

  • Building tolerance for affect in the room
  • Identifying defenses and resistance with compassion
  • Practicing structured interventions in real time
  • Developing flexibility when theory meets the unexpected

Through role plays and guided exercises, you’ll leave with practical tools you can bring directly into session.

Advanced Depth Groups

For seasoned clinicians, these groups provide a space to work at the edge of complexity. Together, we explore cases that resist progress, long-standing treatment impasses, and the subtle dynamics that shape both client and therapist in the room.

Our focus includes:

  • Understanding symptoms and defenses as coherent, adaptive responses shaped by non-conscious relational memory systems
  • Integrating attachment awareness with behavioral precision for deeper and more sustainable change
  • Developing therapeutic intuition to guide interventions in real time
  • Using patient responses—not just theory—as the compass for selecting and shaping next interventions
  • Working through therapeutic ruptures and enactments with clarity and responsiveness
  • Examining how professional identity, countertransference, and personal history inform your clinical presence

These groups move beyond technique to cultivate how you inhabit the role of therapist—deepening authenticity, resilience, and the capacity to remain present with even the most challenging clinical material.

Individual Consultation

Some clinical challenges require focused, one-on-one attention. Individual consultation provides a personalized space to bring your work into sharper focus—whether through tape review, role play, transcript review, or general discussion of cases.

Our work emphasizes not only what interventions to use, but how to track patient responses and let those responses guide your next steps. Together, we examine the emotional and relational functions of symptoms, the role of attachment dynamics, and how your own clinical presence shapes the process.

This is consultation designed to refine your therapeutic intuition, expand your clinical flexibility, and support your ongoing professional development—so you can approach your caseload with more clarity, confidence, and effectiveness.

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