Services
This journey is yours. You choose what’s right for you — therapy, medications, or both alongside each other. For some patients, I serve as their primary therapist. If you already have a therapist, I will happily collaborate with them.
Psychotherapy
Developing a mindfulness practice can improve our well-being. It can improve our mood, increase positive emotions, reduce rumination (worrying), decrease stress, increase focus, promote emotional regulation, improve sleep, create a space to witness your cravings and move through them, and grow radical acceptance of your life. Meditation does not always have to mean sitting quietly with your eyes closed. Movement meditation is just as effective.
Meditations
I do not believe in the “med check” model of practice. In every session, we explore the optimization of your medication, psychotherapy, and ongoing medical assessment.
Medication
Consultation for individuals, couples, and families who want to explore complex medical decision-making, wishes for serious illness, aging, death, and advanced care planning. I support you and your loved ones in talking about difficult topics and asking the right questions to learn about your wishes for serious illness, aging, and death.
Consultation
Consultation
Through my work as a palliative nurse practitioner, I was honored to be a part of people's journey into the unexpected, sickness, aging, grief, and dying. When my father got sick I had a personal journey navigating all the questions that arose with a complex illness, medical decisions, and end-of-life.
I continue to be deeply passionate about sharing the pearls of wisdom all my patients, their families, and my own journey have taught me. Ideally, these conversations are best if they occur before sickness, aging, dementia, or death cross our paths.
Through these experiences, I designed a game that helped to facilitate having these difficult conversations with loved ones.
The deck of cards are designed to facilitate conversations without a health care provider sitting there with you. However, often these cards stimulate deeper questions that might need additional guidance and understanding. I encourage you to speak with your trusted health care providers and/or I offer consultation for individuals, couples, and families who want to explore complex medical decision-making wishes for serious illness, aging, death, and advanced care planning. Example concepts explored include:
How do you want to be treated if you become seriously ill?
What life-support means to you in the case of emergency or when you are close to death (Life-support includes: medical devices to help you breathe or for nutrition, cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR], major surgery, blood transfusions, dialysis, antibiotics or any other medical intervention that extends your life.)
If you were to develop dementia how would your wishes change about how you would want to be taken care of and for life-support?
What your wishes are for aging?
Guidance on how to facilitate these conversations with family members on a continual basis.
Guidance on how to share meaningful memories and stories about your life to increase intimacy and connection.
Resources on how to legally appoint a healthcare agent to make decisions for you if you are no longer to make decision
Resources on how to translate the conversations we have into a legal document
If you have some questions before scheduling, feel free to reach out to me via email or phone.