Seeking care can be a daunting experience: from trusting whether it feels like the right match to believing in your own capacity to grow and heal. My role is to provide and facilitate a reliable and consistent space where my patients can grow freer to think about their lives in ways that may have previously felt out of reach.

A foundational goal of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy is the cultivation of curiosity into how your mind works, how you relate to your own emotions, and how patterns in your life are obstructing your ability to work, love, play, and make meaning. Because we are listening for thoughts and feelings that by design have made themselves hard to hear, I often will recommend meeting more frequently than once-a-week so we are able to build a greater momentum in our work together. I invite this deeper treatment only in consultation with my patient, and after we have had an opportunity to think about the benefits and costs.

My background and training is in psychoanalysis, though I also work with existential and family systems perspectives in mind. In my practice I see adults who experience problems in living. These may express themselves in anxious or depressed states, psychotic conditions, the inhibition of thought and emotion, mysterious or unexplainable physical symptoms, chronic repetition or sabotage in relationships, or an incapacity to metabolize and make use of traumatic experiences.

I specialize in working with the complexities of gender and sexuality, as well as with the dynamics of racism and other forms of hate as these operate both internally and externally.