Our Areas of Expertise
We treat a wide range of concerns — from anxiety and depression to perinatal mental health, insomnia, and the particular pressures of high-achieving environments. If you don't see your concern listed, please reach out — chances are we can help, or point you in the right direction.
To learn more about how we work, you can browse by concern below or scroll through the full list.
Anxiety & Panic
Anxiety is one of the most common reasons people seek therapy. We treat generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks, panic disorder, social anxiety, OCD, and phobias, using a range of research-supported approaches tailored to you and your specific concerns.
Depression
Depression is more than sadness — it can affect how you think, how you feel in your body, and your ability to engage with the things and people that matter to you. It can make even small tasks feel effortful, drain pleasure from things you used to enjoy, and create a kind of flatness that can be hard to describe and hard to shake. But research shows that depression responds well to treatment, and the right support can make a meaningful difference. We draw on a range of research-supported approaches, tailored to you and what you're going through.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
OCD often involves unwanted, intrusive thoughts that feel impossible to dismiss, along with urges to perform certain rituals or behaviors. Our therapists have specialized training in the gold-standard treatments for OCD — Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
Phobias &
Social Anxiety
A phobia becomes a problem when avoiding it starts to cost you something. Social anxiety is more than shyness or introversion — it involves an intense fear of judgment or evaluation that can make socializing feel exhausting before, during, and after the fact. Research-backed treatment for both is available.
Stress
Stress can come from many directions at once — work, relationships, health, finances, family — and can range from situational to chronic and all-consuming. When it becomes sustained, it can affect the body as well as the mind — contributing to muscle tension, headaches, digestive issues, disrupted sleep, and difficulty concentrating. It can also put strain on relationships. One of the hardest things about stress is that it can be difficult to think clearly about it: when you're overwhelmed, finding the space to address what's overwhelming you can feel impossible. Therapy can help you identify what's driving your stress, untangle competing demands, and find more sustainable ways of coping.
Burnout
When stress becomes chronic, it can tip into burnout. Burnout can come from any area of life that makes sustained, relentless demands: a challenging job, caregiving responsibilities, family obligations, or simply too much for too long. People experiencing burnout often know something is wrong but struggle to name it, sometimes wondering whether what they're feeling is depression, or whether they're somehow failing to cope. Burnout and depression can look similar, but burnout is fundamentally a response to circumstances rather than something arising from within themselves. Naming it accurately is often the first step toward addressing it. Therapy can help you understand what's driving your burnout and figure out what needs to change.
Perfectionism
Perfectionism can be difficult to recognize in yourself — the line between high standards and perfectionism can be genuinely hard to see from the inside. But a hallmark of perfectionism is that it tends to undermine the very things it promises: the sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, and meaning that come from doing something well. It can make everything feel like work and crowd out other parts of life, including relationships. The prospect of letting go can feel frightening — as though performance itself is at stake. Therapy can help you understand where your perfectionism comes from and find a different relationship with your own expectations that leaves room for the rest of life.
Achievement Pressure
Achievement pressure can be hard to recognize — the line between healthy ambition and something more problematic is genuinely difficult to see. This kind of pressure often develops early — in students navigating relentless academic and extracurricular demands — but tends to follow people well into adulthood. At its core, it can collapse a person's sense of worth into a single dimension: when things go well, you're enough; when they don't, it can feel like everything has fallen apart. Rest feels unearned, other parts of life feel like distractions, and the pressure to perform can feel constant and inescapable. Therapy can help you understand where the pressure comes from and begin to loosen its grip — so that life feels less relentless and there's more room to breathe.
Relationship Issues
Our relationships are often the most direct source of our sense of wellbeing — and when something isn't right in them, it can be hard for anything else to feel quite right either. Difficulties with communication, managing conflict, or letting others in can put real strain on the relationships that matter most. Many people also notice that the same struggles tend to repeat across different relationships — patterns that can be hard to see from the inside, let alone change.
Therapy can help you understand what's getting in the way and begin to do things differently — working toward relationships that feel more connected and less like a source of ongoing stress.
Grief & Loss
Grief is almost always more complicated than people expect. The loss of a person, a relationship, a role, or a life you had imagined can bring not just sadness but a tangle of feelings that can be hard to make sense of — guilt, anger, confusion, relief, and a disorienting uncertainty about how to move forward. Many people feel pressure to grieve on a timeline that doesn't match their experience, or find that others have moved on before they have. And as life goes on, the guilt about re-engaging with it can become its own source of pain.
Grief doesn't always look the way people expect it to, and it doesn't always come from where people expect. The loss of someone to illness or old age, a sudden or traumatic death, the end of a relationship, a miscarriage, a diagnosis — these are all real losses, and they all deserve space.
Therapy offers a place to grieve without having to manage how it lands on others, and to untangle what's complicated — so that over time, there's room for the rest of life again.
Life Transitions
Life transitions can be harder than people expect. You might assume that if you wanted the change, or if it's a happy one, you shouldn't struggle with it. But all transitions — even positive ones — involve loss and uncertainty. You may feel excited for what's ahead and overwhelmed at the same time, and you may also miss what you've left behind. That combination of feelings can be confusing.
Unexpected transitions are difficult in their own way. Change that you couldn't have prepared for can be disorienting and exhausting. You may feel disappointed, or a sense of grief for what you had imagined your life would look like.
When emotions are mixed and complicated, it can be hard to untangle them or know where to begin. Therapy can help you make sense of what you're feeling and find a way through the change.
Chronic Health Issues
Living with a chronic illness or condition means living with uncertainty — about how you'll feel, what you'll be able to do, and what the future holds. It can bring a profound sense of loss: for the life you had before, or the one you expected to have. The unpredictability can feel relentless, and the emotional weight of managing an ongoing condition is often invisible to others — hard to explain and easy to minimize, even by people who care about you.
Therapy offers a space to process what you're carrying — the fear, the frustration, the grief — and to find ways of living as fully as possible alongside it.
Insomnia
We offer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), the gold-standard, evidence-based treatment for chronic insomnia. Research consistently shows that CBT-I is more effective than medication for most people, and without the side effects. We work with people who are new to sleep difficulties as well as those who have struggled for years.
Perinatal & Postpartum
We offer specialized support across the full perinatal continuum — from fertility challenges and pregnancy loss through postpartum depression and anxiety, birth trauma, and the transition to parenthood. We work with birthing parents, partners, and couples.
Parenting
The expectations on parents today are enormous: be fully attuned to your children, protect their mental health, manage their screen time, fill their lives with meaningful activities, and do all of this while working, maintaining relationships, and somehow taking care of yourself. Many parents find themselves exhausted, wondering whether they're doing it right — or convinced that they're not. These feelings are far more common than parents know.
Parenthood can also affect your sense of who you are. Some parents find themselves unsure of their identity outside of being a parent. Others know who they are but feel completely out of touch with that person, disconnected from the things that once gave them joy and energy. The relationship between partners can suffer too, as the demands of parenting leave little time or space for connection.
Therapy offers parents a space to step back and gain perspective. It can also be practically useful — helping you think through how to talk to your kids, navigate disagreements with your partner about parenting, and manage screen time and technology. We work with parents of children of all ages, from infants to adult children.
Digital Mental Health
Our relationship with technology shapes our mental health in complex ways. We work with adults navigating screen time, social comparison, body image, loneliness, and the impact of technology on relationships and wellbeing. We also work with parents and families navigating the challenges of raising kids in a digital world.
Our Approach
Our therapists draw from different research-supported approaches, including CBT, DBT, psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, and integrative therapy. Each offers a different path to change, and you may find that one resonates more than another depending on your concerns and what feels right for you. Some conditions — including OCD and insomnia — have specific evidence-based treatments with strong research support, and our therapists have specialized training in those approaches. The match between you and your therapist matters. Finding someone whose approach and areas of expertise feel like the right fit is something we take seriously — and it's something we're happy to help you think through in a free 15-minute consultation.
Get Started
Whatever brings you here, you don't have to have it fully figured out before reaching out. Whether your concern is listed above or you're not sure where you fit, we're happy to talk it through and help you figure out whether we're the right fit — and if we're not, to point you in the right direction.
We see clients in person in Princeton, NJ and virtually across NJ, NY, and more than 40 states. You can contact us by phone, text, email, or through the form below to schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation.