Resources

Emergency Mental Health Services

If you are experiencing a mental health crisis and are unable to wait until your next scheduled appointment for support, below are resources you can use to help you through this moment. However, if you are experiencing a true medical or psychiatric emergency, please call 911.

24/7 Suicide Hotline - Call 988

Lifeline - Provides information and referrals within the Finger Lakes region, for individuals struggling with a mental health crisis or thoughts of suicide

Call 211

Monroe County Mobile Crisis Team - Psychiatric emergency team that can help you or your loved one who is struggling with a severe mental health crisis; provides assessment and resources

Call 585-275-5151

Rochester Regional Behavioral Health Access & Crisis Center - located at St. Mary’s Medical Campus Building

Call (585) 368-3950

Affinity Place Respite Services - No fee, short-term respite for individuals struggling with a mental health crisis

Call (585) 563-7083

Addiction Services

Rochester Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)

Call (585) 232-6720

Rochester Narcotics Anonymous (NA)

Call (585) 235-7889

ROCovery Fitness- For recovery support through fitness, sober living, wellness and community

Call (585) 484-0234

What is Experiential Dynamic Therapy?

Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT) is an umbrella term for a family of approaches that work with emotions and defenses directly — in real time, in the body, and in the therapeutic relationship — rather than simply talking about them intellectually.

My work is most deeply rooted in Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), a specific and highly researched method within the EDT family, developed by Habib Davanloo. ISTDP focuses on helping people access and work through deep emotions connected to past trauma and unresolved experiences, in order to get to the root of suffering rather than just managing symptoms.

Though I consider myself an integrative practitioner and draw from a range of modalities, ISTDP principles and techniques are at the core of how I work. Below are some resources to help you learn more.

Videos about the Mind-Body Connection

Learn more below about the mind-body connection and how our emotions can play a role in somatic disorders, like chronic pain conditions with no acute physical cause.