Helping adults and teens break free from trauma, anxiety, OCD, and chronic stress—so they can finally feel like themselves again.
Trauma, Anxiety, OCD, and EMDR Therapy for Teens and Adults in Pittsburgh and Online Throughout Pennsylvania
Have you spent so long pushing through, caring for others, managing symptoms, or surviving difficult relationships that you barely feel like yourself anymore?
✓ You snap at your kids or partner over small things, then spend the rest of the day feeling guilty about it.
✓ Minor setbacks feel overwhelming, and your reactions seem bigger than the situation itself.
✓ You catch yourself fantasizing about quitting your job, moving away, or escaping your current life.
✓ You walk into a room and forget why you're there, lose track of conversations, or feel like your brain is constantly overloaded.
Maybe you’ve noticed…
✓ You’re resting, but your body still feels tired — like recovery never fully catches up.
✓ Parenting brings up reactions, memories, or emotions you thought you had already worked through.
✓ You feel like you’re on a hamster wheel — always doing, fixing, managing, and still somehow behind.
✓ Some days you can barely get out of bed, and other days you push through so well no one would know you’re struggling.
✓ You know what you “should” do, but your body won’t let you access the calm, motivation, or clarity you’re looking for.
If this sounds familiar, your mind and body are not the problem—they've been working hard to protect you. The reactions, habits, and patterns that frustrate you today often began as attempts to survive, cope, or make it through difficult seasons. The good news? Your nervous system can learn something new.
Before you keep going...Pause
Take a moment.
Notice your shoulders.
Notice your jaw.
Notice whether you're already thinking about the next thing on your to-do list.
Take one slow breath.
Feel your feet on the floor. Sit up tall. Stretch your arms overhead. Take another slow breath. Place your hands in your lap. Notice your body.
Now ask yourself:
If one thing in your life felt easier six months from now, what would it be?
Maybe it's your anxiety.
Maybe it's your relationships.
Maybe it's your health.
Maybe it's finally feeling like yourself again.
You don't need to know how you'll get there yet.
You just need to know that it's possible.
And yes, things can feel different. When your nervous system no longer has to spend every day surviving, you may notice:
→ You return to hobbies, interests, and parts of yourself that have been buried under stress.
→You stay grounded during your child’s meltdown instead of spiraling with them.
→Small inconveniences feel small again instead of derailing your whole day.
→You feel stress without being completely consumed by it.
→Your relationships feel more balanced, honest, and less draining.
→You create a pain or symptom management plan that helps you feel less powerless in your body.
→Your memory, focus, sleep, appetite, and energy begin to feel more steady and supported.
→You recover faster after hard days, conflict, flare-ups, or emotional overwhelm.
→You stop feeling like you’re reliving the same patterns, reactions, and painful experiences over and over again.
Hi, I'm Brittany.
I don't believe healing is about trying harder.
Most of the people I work with have already spent years trying harder.
Trying harder to stop overthinking.
Trying harder to manage pain symptoms.
Trying harder to be patient with their kids.
Trying harder to keep up with work, relationships, and responsibilities.
Trying harder to hold everything together.
What they're missing isn't effort.
It's support, safety, structure, and the opportunity to process what their mind and body have been carrying for far too long.
Many of my clients are parents, professionals, caregivers, and overthinkers who feel stuck in survival mode. They may be living with anxiety, trauma, OCD, chronic stress, burnout, chronic illness, or the lingering effects of difficult life experiences. They often understand their patterns intellectually, but still feel disconnected, overwhelmed, exhausted, or unable to create the lasting change they want.
That's where therapy can help.
My approach blends evidence-based therapy, EMDR, nervous system regulation, somatic practices, movement, and practical tools to help you move beyond simply managing symptoms. Together, we'll work to understand what's keeping you stuck, process what your mind and body have been carrying, and create meaningful change that extends beyond the therapy room.
My goal isn’t just to help you get through the day. It’s to help your body feel safer, your mind feel clearer, and your life feel less centered around managing symptoms — so you can reconnect with what actually matters to you.
In my spare time, you can usually find me spending time with my family, getting outside when I can, or walking our very active German shepherd, Ghost.
If you're ready for therapy that is thoughtful, personalized, and focused on lasting healing, I'd be honored to support you.
To get from where you are now to where you want to be, you may need therapy that is more structured, specialized, and body-based.
What Makes This Work Different
If you've tried therapy before and still feel stuck, it may not be because you're doing anything wrong. You may simply need an approach that works with both your mind and your body.
✓ A clear plan — not just open-ended talk therapy.
✓ Practical tools you can use between sessions.
✓ The option for extended sessions when deeper processing needs more time.
✓ Body-based healing using somatic skills and yoga, not just insight.
✓ Space for movement, fidgets, grounding tools, and nervous system support.
✓ A pace that doesn't force you to sit still and process emotions in a way that feels overwhelming.
✓ A therapist who listens deeply, but also gently challenges the patterns keeping you stuck.
✓ Tangible practices that help you leave sessions feeling clearer, steadier, and more connected.
Need More Than Weekly Therapy?
Sometimes healing needs more space than a traditional session can hold. EMDR and Therapy intensives offer focused, supportive time to work with the memories, patterns, and body responses that keep showing up — without rushing your nervous system or forcing a breakthrough.
My Specialties
Disturbing Past Experiences & Trauma
When old experiences continue to shape how you think, feel, relate, or respond to stress, it can feel impossible to fully move forward. Together we'll help your mind and body process what happened so it no longer feels like it's happening now.
Intrusive Thoughts & Excessive Fear
You may find yourself stuck in loops of overthinking, reassurance seeking, checking, researching, or trying to make anxiety go away. Therapy can help you build a different relationship with uncertainty and regain trust in yourself.
Neurodivergence & Nervous System Support
Traditional therapy doesn't always work when your brain processes information differently. We'll build strategies that honor your unique nervous system while reducing overwhelm, shame, and burnout.
Parenting & Breaking Intergenerational Cycles
Parenting has a way of bringing old wounds to the surface. Together we'll build practical skills for regulation while helping you respond to your children from intention rather than survival mode.
Chronic Illness & Mind-Body Healing
When you're living with chronic illness, pain, fatigue, or health-related anxiety, stress often affects both your mind and body. Therapy can help you develop practical coping strategies while rebuilding trust in yourself and your body.
Stress, Burnout & Survival Mode
You've spent so long pushing through that exhaustion feels normal. Whether you're overwhelmed by work, caregiving, responsibilities, or simply life itself, therapy can help your nervous system move out of constant survival mode.
Relationships & Attachment
Whether you're navigating conflict, people-pleasing, difficulty setting boundaries, or repeating familiar relationship patterns, therapy can help you build healthier connections without losing yourself.
Therapy Services
There are different ways to begin healing depending on your needs, capacity, schedule, and goals.
OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) Therapy
If your mind won't stop asking "What if?", OCD therapy can help you break free from obsessive doubt, compulsions, and the endless search for certainty using evidence-based treatment.
Trauma Therapy
Heal from childhood trauma, PTSD, attachment wounds, medical trauma, and chronic stress using EMDR, somatic therapy, and trauma-informed approaches tailored to your needs.
EMDR Therapy
Reprocess painful memories, triggers, and negative beliefs so they no longer feel as emotionally overwhelming or keep you stuck.
Somatic Trauma Therapy
Learn practical skills to calm your nervous system, reconnect with your body, and move out of survival mode.
Looking for a More Focused Approach?
For some people, weekly therapy is the right fit.
For others, healing feels slowed down by scheduling limitations, busy lives, or the desire to spend more concentrated time working through a specific trauma theme, core belief, or nervous system pattern.
Trauma Intensives offer extended time for EMDR, somatic therapy, parts work, nervous system regulation, and integration planning.
Rather than spreading the work over months, intensives create space to go deeper in a focused and intentional way. Trauma intensives are especially helpful for individuals who feel ready to make meaningful progress in a shorter period of time or who have limited availability for ongoing weekly sessions.
Therapy May Be More Affordable Than You Think
One of the biggest barriers to getting support is the assumption that therapy will be too expensive.
If you have out-of-network benefits, your insurance may reimburse a portion of your therapy costs.
I've partnered with Mentaya to make checking your benefits quick and easy.
Use the tool below to see whether you qualify for reimbursement and what your estimated coverage may be.
I accept AETNA and BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD plans including Highmark.
Here’s how we begin:
1. Start with connection
We’ll begin with a consultation where you can share what’s been feeling heavy, ask questions, and get a sense of whether my approach feels like the right fit.
2. Create a plan that fits your nervous system
Therapy with me is not one-size-fits-all. We’ll look at what’s keeping you stuck and decide whether weekly therapy, extended sessions, EMDR, somatic tools, movement, or practical regulation skills make the most sense for you.
3. Build change you can feel outside of session
Our work is not just about insight. It’s about helping you feel more grounded in your body, clearer in your mind, and more able to respond to life with steadiness, confidence, and self-trust.