Ali Dart,LCSW

I work with adults who are coming to therapy for parenting concerns, adult attachment or relationship concerns, anxiety and mood disorders, ADHD, adjustment issues and life transitions (divorce, separation, loss, work stressors, etc.), or issues related to family of origin. My favorite clients are overwhelmed, stressed, driven, worried they are doing life wrong, feeling like an imposter, and trying to figure out this whole adulting thing.  If you consider yourself highly sensitive or a hot mess, you've come to the right place. 

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Becoming a parent is life-changing.  Whether you are beginning your parenting journey or you have finally found the breathing room to reflect on it, I would love to support you in this important, (sometimes) joyful, but extremely challenging endeavor.  Parenting pushes us to our limits, but it also transports us back to our own childhoods, giving us a chance to replicate the best parts and come to terms with the worst.  Our experience of being parented can have a profound impact on the way we parent our own children.  Maybe you were yelled at as a child and now you find yourself yelling too.  The criticism in our childhood becomes our harsh inner critic in adulthood.  If you are trying to chart a new path or finally end generational trauma, it's not easy.  It's like learning to speak a new language without a guide.  Through my specialized training in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IMH-E),I work with parents on both the practical how-to's of more positive parenting and the deep, heavy work of healing our own attachment injuries.  My role is to wonder with you about what's getting in the way and to help you develop the loving, trusting relationships you've always wanted.    ​

As a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Provider (PMH-C), I am trained to help moms and/or dads with perinatal anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and other issues in a non-judgmental way and to walk alongside you as you make decisions about your desired birth plan, medications, feeding, and caring for yourself and your baby.  

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I am also a Certified ADHD Clinical Services Provider, so if you have been diagnosed with ADHD or ASD or you are wondering if you may have awesomely different wiring, I can help.  I love talking with adults about neurodiversity and the challenges as well as the super powers that go along with it.  I like to help both kids and adults find the right balance between acceptance (and, really, I want you to love who you are) and personal growth.  That may mean helping you grieve the time you lost trying to fit into the wrong box, hiding and masking, probably stressed, overwhelmed, and beating yourself up about it.  Or you may be ready to learn more about how your nervous system works and how to hack your brain and make your environment fit YOU better.  A big part of ADHD is emotional reactivity.  You may be a big feeler and you've spent your life being told you overreact, you are too sensitive, or you are too much.  We can talk about that.  I'm here for all of it.    

 

I can also offer the Making Sense of Your Worth program in an individual therapy format.  Services for adults are offered in the office or via a secure telehealth platform. 

(Masks are no longer required in the office, but I am more than happy to wear my mask upon request.) ​​