Psychotherapy is a privileged conversation unlike any other — a conversation that is catalyzed by deep honesty, compassion, and curiosity. The safety and support of the relationship we build together will allow you to develop insight and engage your creativity in understanding questions you are confronting. The modalities I work with most readily — psychoanalysis, and mindfulness-based approaches — address the effects of your development and history on the concerns you are facing, while also alleviating and tending to the immediate impacts of your symptoms in the present. A little more information about these follows:

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis mean something very different than what it meant in the time of Freud. It is more interactive and engaged than the caricature of the silent analyst and the patient on a couch. I look to theories of the mind that consider our earliest relationships as building blocks of our experience of self, and of the world around us: Relational, Interpersonal, Humanistic and Existential theories of psychoanalysis. Not stale at all, this work connects the immediacy of your emotional experience with deeply held perceptions of your self, your relationships and the world, opening up avenues to profound change and growth.

Mindfulness-based approaches such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy address the immediate symptoms at hand, provide fresh perspectives and tools that catalyze the process of change. Keeping a focus on the mind-body connection allows for better regulation of emotion and overall wellbeing. Staying tuned in to the facts of present reality and cultivating acceptance actually facilitates change.

My clients are:

• Late adolescents/ young adults who are navigating independence and identity

• Parents navigating the impact of a child on their sense of themselves and their relationships to partners and career

• Individuals experiencing depression, anxiety symptoms, or contending with the aftermath of trauma

• People of all genders experiencing body image and eating disturbances

• The sandwich generation dealing with the stressors of raising children and caring for aging parents

• Individuals who are looking to deepen their relationship to their creative work, or find their artistic voice

• Understanding the impact of an abusive parent or partner, or of a substance-abusing parent or partner

• Working through what it means to feel Othered because of class, racial, ethnic, or gender identity

I endeavor to meet each person where they are, with the goals they have in mind for themselves.

Each person comes to this process with their own unique strengths, which I hope to foster and develop, while also nurturing the areas that need deeper support.