I offer individual and couples therapy, as well as clinical supervision, with a relational and psychoanalytic approach. My work focuses on experiences of dissociation, anxiety, and traumatic memory. I’m also trained in somatic and other trauma modalities as well as Mentalization-Based Therapy designed to treat Borderline Personality and other attachment based disorders. For me, psychotherapy is a way to accompany people in developing and integrating underdeveloped or missing parts of themselves. My aim is to help people create a language for their emotional life and subjective experiences that allows for greater intimacy with themselves and others. Psychotherapy treats symptoms; but it also is about opening a new relationship to imagination and experiencing life. In addition to my clinical work, I’ve been a Buddhist practitioner and meditation teacher for nearly two decades. While I welcome those interested in integrating meditation into therapy, my practice is open to people of all backgrounds, identities, and beliefs.

 

In my work with associates, I focus on developing psychodynamic skills and a deeper understanding of relational dynamics in therapy. I’ve observed that therapy generates change because it offers a trusting relationship in which unconscious content and processes are reflected in the relationship, as much in the therapist as in the client. The more fully therapists understand their own clinical experiences as part of a relational dynamic with their clients, the better the therapist can recognize these processes in their clients and then serve as facilitators of clients’ growth and learning.

 

Outside of therapy, I enjoy road biking, eating vegan, playing the organ, and spending time with friends and my cats.