My Approach

My treatment approach and therapeutic style.

  • Explore.

    First, we will start by uncovering and processing past experiences and events that shaped who you are. In this phase we will investigate patterns that you may have learned during formative years and understand how that is informing the way you show up in your life, relationships, mental health and wellness today.

  • Insight.

    Next, we will gain an understanding, validate and begin to have compassion for the ways the past shows up and impacts you in the here and now. By doing so, we are able to make sense of your current experiences which will help us formulate actionable steps to help create positive change.

  • Action.

    Finally, with the knowledge and understanding gained, we can learn how to make small shifts both internally and externally in order to live your fullest, happiest life. By utilizing evidenced based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), we will focus on your current thoughts, feelings and behaviors. In doing so, you will learn present focused coping skills, ways to talk to yourself, manage intrusive thoughts and make changes in the present.

Areas of Expertise

Therapy is a safe, nonjudgmental space for you to learn more about who you are, decrease current symptoms and distress and live a life that is full of purpose and meaning.

I create individualized plans based on your specific needs, desired change and personal growth. Please reach out for a consultation to discuss more in depth what treatment would look like for you

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  • Using science backed, evidence based methods I can help you identify triggers, decrease and manage symptoms and ultimately find relief by targeting worries and intrusive thoughts, intense emotions and physical sensations.

    Specifically, I work with individuals who have the following:

    Generalized anxiety, Social anxiety, Health anxiety, Obsessive compulsive disorder, Specific phobias, Panic attacks & Panic disorder.

    Additionally, I help individuals manage GI distress (Irritable Bowel Syndrome - (IBS)) which often is related to anxious thoughts, feelings and behaviors.

  • Depression is a constant feeling of sadness and loss of interest. You may feel hopeless or stuck and may experience a host of other symptoms such as weight loss or gain, sleep difficulties, a loss of energy and difficulty concentrating.

    Depression can arise after one event, such as a break up or loss of job, or it can be something you’ve been struggling with more long term.

    Depression can lead you to feeling hopeless, isolated and alone.

    The good news is you don’t have to go through this on your own. By using evidenced based methods such as CBT, we can work together to target these negative thoughts and start to create changes in how you feel which will ultimately shift the way you relate and interact in the world.

  • Do you find that you are always comparing yourself to others? Do you struggle to have a clear understanding of who you are? Are you living your life based on other peoples expectations? These are only some of the ways low self esteem and lack of identity show up on an every day basis.

    In order to help shift the focus from external to internal, we will focus on understanding your internal narrative and work towards identifying and unlearning some of these long held beliefs you have about yourself.

    By creating space, identifying your own wants and needs and getting to know yourself on a deep level, you will be able to live more in line with your values.

    This will help you to live your most intentional and authentic life.

  • Whether you have a desire to meet a romantic partner, understand why similar patterns keep repeating, work though family dynamics, manage and reduce conflict or learn better ways of communicating, therapy can help you cultivate, form and maintain healthier happier relationships in your life.

    Understanding yourself, your attachment style and the way you show up in the world can help you to gain insight, identify and change repeated patterns and cycles in your life.

    By doing so, you will grow internally as well as in your connection to others.

  • Times of change can be both challenging and exciting and can involve both positive and negative events. Some examples include but are not limited to:

    a graduation, a new job, job loss, getting married, getting divorced, a break up, having a child. I can help you make sense of your current experiences and help you find clarity as transitions arise.

  • No two people grieve or cope with loss in the same way. Unfortunately, we live in a society that expects us to get right back up after terrible losses and tragedies.

    You need time to process, move through pain and loss in a way that is uniquely your own..

    Therapy provides an opportunity for you walk through the stages of grief in a safe space, make sense of what happened and express your truest thoughts and feelings during a very difficult and possibly traumatic time.

    Some feelings that might come up are sadness, guilt, regret, shock and even happiness. Let’s journey down this path together to help you find peace and understanding.

  • Let’s work together to make meaning, create space and help you find clarity and peace among life’s ups and downs.

    • trying to cope with being a woman in the workplace,

    • struggling with a marriage,

    • are a mother,

    • having difficulty getting pregnant

    • have just experienced a loss

    Group Therapy: Women’s Process and Skills Group anyone identifying as a woman in her mid 20s-30s.

    The focus of the group will center on contemporary women's issues including (but not limited to) the challenges of making new friendships/relationships in adulthood, processing current relationship dynamics, how social relationships have changed before and after covid, adult loneliness, society's influence (i.e. diet culture, confidence/self-esteem, comparisons, family of origin influence and expectations). The group will be emotion focused with a skills component (i.e. mindfulness skills, ways to manage anxiety using action oriented strategies).

    The group will be between $100-$125 with sliding scale options on the lower end of the range available to anyone identifying in a marginalized population or with financial stressors

Contact Dr. Remi Appel

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“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

- Carl Rogers