An individualized & evidence-based therapeutic experience

Is standard talk therapy not working?

Are you ready for something different?

About Our

Practice

We are the Watershed Practice. Watershed moments are moments of choice: yes or no; this or that; go or don’t. This very moment, right now, is a watershed moment: Do you keep reading? Or do you decide we’re not what you’re looking for and navigate away from our site? You experience dozens, if not hundreds of watershed moments every day. Getting the life you want doesn’t happen because of any single decision, but happens as the culmination of all of them, over time. This is the key: creating your most meaningful life doesn’t require perfection, it requires practice. We’d like to help you build that practice.

What we do

We know that pretty much everyone comes to therapy because they want to feel better. The paradox is this: many of our attempts to feel better in the short-term tend to leave us feeling even worse in the long run. When we attempt to control unpleasant thoughts and feelings, we lose sight of what’s most important to us: our precious energy goes towards attempting to escape and avoid painful experiences, rather than building a meaningful life. Over time, this creates an experience that we call Chronic Distress. When we are living in a chronically distressed way, we sink our energies into attempting to control the things we cannot change, while losing sight of what we can change. We get stuck, and we get into trouble.

In our work together, we will seek to help you identify and understand the problematic patterns in your life that have led you to therapy, liberate yourself from unhelpful habits, and cultivate the freedom to build a rich, full, and meaningful life. Our goal is for you to leave our work together with increased psychological flexibility, an ability to trust your inner wisdom, and an abiding sense that you matter.

We work from the premise that happiness is a byproduct of living well. While we can’t give you happiness (we wish we could!), we can help you learn how to live well, knowing that with this will come vitality and resilience. We can help you to notice the watershed moments in your life, and give you the tools necessary to choose what matters - over and over and over again.

Who we serve 

We specialize in working with persons struggling in their interpersonal relationships, experiencing blunted and/or out-of-control emotions, who find themselves falling into unproductive and distressing thinking spirals, and who get into trouble by behaving impulsively. With over 12 years combined DBT experience, we are comfortable working with persons with complex presentations, multiple/conflicting/ambiguous mental health diagnoses, and especially those who have had trouble finding success in prior therapies, including traditional DBT.

We also specialize in offering wraparound services for teens and their parents. Christina adores working with teenaged persons, and Call has a passion for providing parent coaching. We have worked together on DBT teams since 2020, and, in part, started The Watershed Practice due to the powerful clinical outcomes we were getting in collaborating together on supporting family systems who are in crisis.

Here are the common behaviors and related diagnostic categories that we are skilled and experienced in treating:

  • Dangerous and life-threatening behaviors, including: self-injurious behaviors, suicide-related behaviors, and other high-risk behaviors. These behaviors are often connected with borderline personality disorder.

  • Problems related to attention management and executive dysfunction. These are frequently connected with ADHD and autism spectrum disorder.

  • Problematic outcomes of learning to live with chronic health and pain conditions

  • Misuse of food and eating disorders

  • Misuse of substances

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorders and other perfectionistic, high-performance related problems

  • Major mood disorders

  • Anxiety disorders and avoidance-driven behaviors, such as school avoidance, quitting meaningful activities, or “failure-to-launch”

  • Relationship problems, which are common sequelae to traumatic experiences

  • Existential or politically-oriented angst

  • Queer-specific, and transition-related issues