What I offer:
I provide individual psychotherapy to adults with an emphasis on exploration, collaboration, and discovery. I am interested in a broad range of issues including depression, anxiety, identity, relational trauma, family of origin challenges, women's issues, life transitions, and chronic pain and other complex medical challenges.
How I see therapeutic work:
Many people come to therapy to “fix” an issue in their lives—to reduce symptoms like anxiety or emotional pain. I meet my patients where they are, and this is often where our journey begins. So frequently, we come to discover that these symptoms are messengers of an underlying and otherwise hidden condition; that is what I aim to help you discover, bear, and tend to. One of the most powerful vehicles in this process is the safety, intimacy, and collaboration within our clinical relationship.
I work with my patients from a psychodynamic lens, which means considering how our unconscious and earliest life conditions influence our present experience and how we move through the world. I draw from various schools of psychoanalytic theory, attachment, mindfulness, and somatic experience to help identify the powerful forces shaping my patients' lives that are often hiding in plain sight. Together, we might explore your childhood, family history, dreams, and fantasies, or our shared experience together to uncover and unlock the patterns that keep you stuck.
My training & experience:
My training as a social worker helps me consider how our culture, society, and systems shape our understanding and moment-to-moment experience. I completed the William Alanson White Institute’s Online Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program in 2023 and work weekly with an analytic supervisor to continue to hone my skills in listening to the unconscious. Additionally, as someone who lives with chronic autoimmune conditions, I am familiar with the unique challenges of navigating our complicated healthcare landscape while balancing what it means to be “sick” or “well,” and everything in between and beyond.
Values:
All are accepted in my practice. I work with compassion, curiosity, and openness toward those who identify with any race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion or identity not mentioned. What I don’t yet know, I aim to learn with humility.
Is therapy right for me?
In recent years therapy has become much less stigmatized and more accessible.
This also means, there’s a lot of therapy-speak in the wild that can be confusing, pathologizing, and misleading. Many think about therapy under a medical model, here to manage and reduce symptoms quickly.
This is not how I operate. I’m not here to manage your behaviors or offer you a quick fix — I’m here to support you, listen to you and truly know you.
If you’re considering therapy for the first time, take a look at this video.
Have more questions? Don’t hesitate to ask.
Video Credit: The School of Life
