Psychologist: Dr. GROVE

Dr. HAMILTON

Who I Am

I’ll be upfront. I’m a bit obsessed with the space where psychology and the body meet.

High-achievers are particularly good at overriding their own signals. You push through. You perform.

You optimize everything except the thing that actually needs attention — because slowing down isn’t really an option, and honestly, you’re not even sure what’s wrong. The headaches that won’t quit. The gut that’s been off for years. The fatigue that no amount of sleep touches.

Real symptoms, real suffering — and a medical system that hands you a referral and wishes you luck.

What we now understand about chronic stress, trauma, and somatic experience — the way the nervous system holds what the mind has been too busy to process — is genuinely fascinating.

And for women especially, these symptoms have historically been dismissed, minimized, or mislabeled. You weren’t catastrophizing. You weren’t “just anxious.” And it’s not all in your head, even if it doesn’t show up on a test result. Your body is telling you something true.

Men get this too — navigating a world that wants them to be both stoic and emotionally available at the same time, and yet is somehow offended by both.

I know what it’s like to perform well inside a system that wasn’t built for you — and to keep bumping up against that in your work, your relationships, everywhere it matters — even when everything looks fine from the outside.

It’s a workplace that rewards a version of you that isn’t sustainable. Or a relationship you really wish would work — but the same patterns keep showing up. And if you’re both smart, capable people, the fact that you can’t seem to fix it is its own kind of exhausting.

I’m also a mom, married, and fully acquainted with the particular chaos of being an ambitious woman with a lot on her plate. I’m not going to be shocked by your life. And I’m not going to ask you to bubblewrap your feelings to spare mine.

It’s not that you want to leave. It’s that you can’t keep going like this either. That’s what I’m here for.

My Approach

I work at both the cognitive and attachment level — meaning I’m not interested in surface-level fixes. I’m interested in the patterns underneath them.

But I also work somatically. The body keeps its own records — and sometimes that’s where the real work is.

My approach draws on evidence-based modalities including CBT, ACT, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Therapy. I’m a bit of a brain nerd — genuinely fascinated by the psychophysiology of stress, how chronic pressure reshapes the nervous system, and what kinds of changes actually interrupt it — and stick.

The pressure isn’t going away. That’s not the problem we’re solving. The problem is what it’s doing to you.

How do you stay afloat without shutting down, without going numb, without slowly becoming someone you don’t recognize.

How do you stay a deep feeler, someone who connects the dots, in a world that keeps rewarding people who aren’t.

That’s where I live. And the good news is — there’s a lot we can do there.

Who I Work With

I’m particularly drawn to clients who are externally successful and internally unclear — people who have built impressive lives and are unsure they’re living the right one.

My clients are executives, medical providers, students, mothers holding everything together, and high-achieving professionals navigating major transitions: new chapters with twists they didn’t see coming.

I specialize in burnout, anxiety, imposter syndrome, complex trauma, relationship dynamics, and the psychological weight of high-achieving life — including the way chronic stress and unresolved trauma show up somatically, in the body, long after the mind has moved on.

I also specialize in health psychology and chronic pain — the intersection of physical symptoms, nervous system dysregulation, and the emotional weight of living in a body that isn’t cooperating.

I work with couples navigating the specific strain of two high-achieving people in one relationship.

And I work with men — often for the first time — on the things that don’t come up anywhere else.

If you’ve tried other approaches and found them too surface-level, too generic, or simply not made for someone like you — you’re in the right place now.

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