Services — Eluisa Brunetto, LCSW, CCATP
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Services

Evidence-Based Therapy
for the Challenges
That Matter Most.

Specialized treatment for anxiety, OCD, depression, and life transitions — tailored to who you are, not just what you’re experiencing.

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Each specialty has its own patterns, maintaining factors, and most effective approaches. Tap any area below to learn more — and follow the link to the full page when you’re ready.

You’ve just sent an email and immediately start wondering if you said something wrong. You re-read it three times. Your stomach tightens. You spend the next two hours waiting for a response you’re already dreading.

You’re lying in bed at midnight and your mind won’t stop. Running through tomorrow’s to-do list, last week’s conversation, a decision from six months ago. You know you need to sleep. You can’t.

You’ve started avoiding certain situations because the anxiety just isn’t worth it anymore. Your world has gotten smaller, and you’re not sure when that happened.

Anxiety is not a character flaw. It is a neurobiological response that has become miscalibrated — firing too often, too intensely, in response to threats that are imagined or vastly overstated. Using CBT, ACT, and ERP, we work to interrupt the avoidance cycle and build a fundamentally different relationship with uncertainty. Most clients notice meaningful change within 8–12 weeks.

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You’re driving and a thought suddenly pops into your mind: “What if I swerved into that bridge post?” You feel a surge of fear. Am I losing control? What if I act on it?

You’re leaving your house and begin to wonder if you actually locked the door. You check once… then again… and maybe several more times, because each time doubt creeps back in.

An intrusive image of a loved one being harmed flashes into your mind. Your stomach drops. You try to push it away, but it keeps coming back.

OCD affects approximately 1.2% of the U.S. population and is characterized by a cycle of obsessions and compulsions. The most effective treatment is Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) — the gold-standard approach backed by decades of research. ERP helps you face feared thoughts, resist compulsions, and build genuine tolerance for uncertainty. Most clients begin to notice meaningful improvement within 12–20 sessions.

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You wake up and the weight is already there before you’ve even opened your eyes. Not sadness exactly — more like a flatness. A distance between you and everything that used to matter.

You’re sitting with people who love you and you feel completely alone. You laugh at the right moments, say the right things, and then go home and wonder why you feel so empty.

You used to care about things — your work, your relationships, your goals. The feeling just isn’t there anymore. Getting through the day takes everything you have.

Depression is not sadness. It is a condition that distorts perception — specifically, the way you see yourself, the world, and your future. Treatment combines Behavioral Activation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to interrupt the withdrawal cycle, examine the thought patterns maintaining depression, and reconnect you to what matters. Many people begin to notice real shifts within 8–16 sessions.

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You made the decision — the move, the career change, the relationship — and it was the right one. You know it was. So why do you feel so unmoored? Why does nothing feel familiar, including yourself?

You’ve lost something — a person, a relationship, a version of your future you had quietly been counting on. People keep telling you you’ll be okay. You believe them. And you also can’t get out of bed.

On paper, everything looks fine. But inside, you don’t recognize the life you’re living or the person living it. You’re waiting to feel like yourself again, and it’s been a while.

Major transitions don’t just change your circumstances — they change your identity. The roles you inhabit, the stories you tell about yourself, the communities that reflect you back. Therapy for life transitions uses ACT, narrative approaches, and practical support to help you make sense of what’s changing, grieve what’s been lost, and find out who you are on the other side of it.

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