Dynama Psychology treats a range of diagnoses and will assess your symptoms to determine what conditions are impacting you. Your symptoms may be mild and not warrant a diagnosis, yet therapy may still be beneficial; you may have a pre-existing diagnosis which will shape our work together from the onset; or I may provide a diagnosis that best encapsulates your symptoms in order to provide insight and determine the best approach to treatment.
Dynama Psychology provides expert care from childhood through adulthood. From budding children, to maturing teens, to aspiring adults...these stages hold unique challenges, and it all deserves attention, empathy, and support.
All clients at Dynama Psychology receive evidence-based treatment. These are therapeutic interventions that have been studied through clinical research and are shown to benefit many people across a range of diagnoses and life circumstances. Dynama Psychology provides clients with the following evidence-based treatments in a thoughtful and collaborative way.
The Thoughts-Behaviors-Feelings 'triangle' is a gold standard in modern psychology. Learn how this cycle works, and retrain your thinking in order to shift behaviors and better tolerate stressful emotions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers a large therapeutic toolbox. Learn a variety of skills to gain self-awareness, regulate emotions, tolerate discomfort, and be effective in your relationships.
Send your anxiety to the backseat and put yourself back in charge. Exposure therapy is all about showing yourself that you can, in fact, tolerate anxiety. The proven way to banish avoidance is through small, deliberate, supervised steps.
Understanding the science behind these strategies, practicing them, and incorporating them into your daily life and therapy sessions are key ways to get the most benefit from these tools. INTENTIONAL BREATHING uses purposeful breaths as a tool for stress management and relaxation. MINDFULNESS re-centers your mind and body using the five senses. GUIDED IMAGERY increases the flexibility of your brain so that you can mentally 'get out' to keep or regain a sense of control and calm. PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE RELAXATION soothes physical tension, whether to help you fall asleep, revive yourself at work, or simmer frustration that is about to boil over.
Dynama Psychology brings years of hospital consultation experience to the outpatient setting, and specializes in therapy for families living with pediatric medical illness. Diagnoses may include asthma, diabetes, obesity, chronic pain, and cancer; other medical experiences may include surgery, organ transplant, invasive procedures, complex medical/developmental history, and more. These experiences deeply impact both the child and family. As a result, families often find themselves navigating anxiety, sadness, low self-esteem, poor medication adherence, social isolation, and behavior changes. Pediatric health psychology addresses all of these challenges, benefiting the child as well as the whole family. Dynama Psychology provides a unique and gentle safe-haven where children and families can gain emotional coping tools, mind-body awareness, and improved quality of life.
Dynama Psychology supports families by providing therapeutic coaching for parents. Even if a child is not in therapy, a parent can become the catalyst through which the child receives therapeutic benefit. Take space to untangle the emotions and tendencies that you experience while raising your child, by reflecting on your own childhood experience. Grow your ability to protect and nurture your child’s mental health. Bid farewell to old patterns that don’t work, and embrace new ways to parent. Learn skills to steady yourself in times of chaos. Make peace with the hardest emotions of parenthood such as grief, disappointment, fear, and isolation. Don’t lose hope that you can achieve parenting that you (and your kids) feel good about.
Dynama Psychology offers emotional support and coping tools for common health issues. Too many of us struggle with poor sleep, low activity level & high technology use, chronic pain, nausea or GI discomfort, and inconsistent medication adherence. These topics routinely come up in therapy sessions even when clients seek support for completely different reasons, since these challenges are commonplace and naturally coincide with mental health. Achieve maintainable behavior-change and strengthen your emotional tolerance of these challenges through psychoeducation, mind-body skills, and coping techniques.
Dynama Psychology is here to offer you pandemic support with open ears and an open heart, to give you the space to process all that has occurred. How did we get here? Where are we going? What do I do? These are the questions keeping us up at night, and yet we barely have the chance to really contemplate and accept these riddles in a safe, private, unfiltered environment. Take the opportunity to pause, breathe, share, and grieve this version of our world with a trusted professional.