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. I am a depth oriented, trauma informed therapist with a former professional background as an architect. Often people find me after trying behavioral therapies and are ready to look at the root causes of their suffering. 

Many people I see 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:

• Stuck and that you've lost your creative way.

• Frustrated communicating with those close to you.

• 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.

• Isolated from others because you've developed a hard shell to protect yourself.

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

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 on our identities of the social world (cultural, material and political.) 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 heal and 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. 

While most people seek once a week treatment, for those that are ready to commit to more intensive work, I recommend psychoanalysis which entails attending three to five sessions per week. Psychoanalysis is often life changing and life saving for many people.