Inside each of us is a wise knowing self that we sometimes need help to access.

I work with people from conventional to radical lifestyles, younger to older adults, and am especially experienced with those with marginalized identities. Often people find me after trying behavioral therapies and are ready to work more deeply. I am a psychoanalytic therapist with a background in art and professional architecture. 

Many people I work with enjoy the combination of working insightfully with new ways of paying attention to themselves through their dreams, words and sounds, physical sensations, interpersonal and social phenomena, and other ways of knowing.​

As you're considering therapy, you may be feeling:

• Frustrated communicating with those close to you.

• Stuck and have lost your creative way.

• Conflicting feelings of sadness and/or dissatisfaction despite your successes.

• Grief from losses and life changes.

• Difficulty accepting praise and visibility as you battle an inner critic that thinks you're still not enough.

• Exhausted from the complexities of being the child of immigrants, holding marginalized/disenfranchised identities, and/or nonconventional ways of living.

• A need to go deeper after behavioral skills based therapies.

If you're ready to explore how to (re)find your way that is wholly emergent from you and not how others wish you to be, we might be a good match.

I work in a contemporary psychoanalytic modality, which means I train in the art of deep listening with a socially and culturally conscious lens of anti-oppression. I believe we are not just impacted by who were our early life caregivers but also the impact of the social world on our identities (race, politics, law, economy, culture etc.) And as a result, there is a lot we don’t know that is unconscious for better or worse. 

I think of the unconscious like a rich wilderness that we can only hope to be in contact with when we aren’t looking at it straight on and by feeling as relaxed as possible. It’s like putting our ears to the earth that is you and naming what we sense and observe and finding clues and signs that can help us make sense of what has been unresolved in you.

For this reason when possible, I encourage free association rather than coming prepared to session, and we may talk about dreams, random associations that come up in session or between sessions, or even notice something that was related to an event weeks prior.