About Tricia

I approach therapy from a developmental, behavioral, and relational perspective. Our emotions often make sense within the context of adapting to our experiences. But maladaptations lead to dysfunctions in life and love. My aim is to help individuals and families not only understand your reactions, but to challenge unhelpful habits and then practice more functional responses to distress.

I utilize governing theories such as Object Relations and Attachment Theory, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Family Systems Therapy, and skills from Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT). I believe our self-protective responses are a result of our internalized responses to life experiences and I believe we can change through intentional exposure, new experiences, and repeated practice with more functional responses. I see therapy as a space of learning, preparation, and practice to challenge yourself to understand and accept distress and anxiety and how we may function anxiously around others in relationships through patterns like avoidance or control. I utilize therapy to practice shifting relational and internal patterns of thought and behavior which affect our natural emotional responses.

Additionally, I am a trained Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET) practitioner. NET is a mind-body technique that uses a methodology of finding and removing neurological imbalances related to unresolved stress patterns. I utilize this technique often when working with anxiety and trauma.

While I work with many individuals to process family wounds, I primarily work with families and parents to address behavioral and emotional challenges in thier children and teens. I aim to engage the full family in therapy to actively address individual and relational dynamics in the home. I work with many relationship dynamics such as marital, parent-child, sibling, and more to improve the functional and relational skills of individuals and units.