Psychotherapy · Psychoanalysis · Supervision
There is more beneath the surface than you already know.
Contemporary psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults, by video. You don't need a diagnosis, or to be in crisis, to begin.
Practice
Why therapy?
Something isn't working the way you'd like.
Most people come to therapy because something isn't working the way they'd like. They may feel anxious or depressed, find themselves repeating painful patterns in relationships, struggle with self-esteem or intimacy, feel stuck professionally, or simply sense that something is missing. Sometimes a specific problem brings you in; sometimes the difficulty is more existential. Either way, therapy is a place to look at what's troubling you with intention and care.
Our work attends not only to what's happening in your life now, but to the deeper patterns that shape your experience; many of which took root early in life and now operate outside your awareness. As those patterns come into focus, they begin to lose their grip. The aim isn't only to solve problems; it's to arrive at a freer, more authentic sense of yourself, with a larger capacity for living and loving.
You don't need a diagnosis, or to be in crisis, to begin. What matters is a willingness to turn toward your own experience — to trust that there is more beneath the surface than you already know, and that it's worth exploring.
What changes
Closing the gap between how you appear on the outside and how you feel on the inside.
Many people feel that gap. Closing it is much of what we do together. This runs deeper than learning techniques to manage symptoms: it is a different relationship with yourself.
i.
Difficult emotions
become easier to bear, without needing to flee them or be overwhelmed.
ii.
Relationships
grow more genuine, boundaries clearer, decisions less paralyzing.
iii.
Yourself
Your feelings and desires become more available to you, and you begin to feel more like yourself.
Practice
The concerns people bring
People come to me with a wide range of concerns — and with difficulties that resist easy names.
- Anxiety and depression
- Relationships and intimacy
- Trauma and loss
- Questions of identity
- Sexuality
- Spirituality and meaning
- Difficulties that resist easy names
- Something that is missing
Psychoanalysis
A new relational home alongside the one you already inhabit.
An intensive form of treatment that typically involves meeting several times a week.
At its heart, the psychoanalytic project is about becoming less defended and more able to hold the multiplicity of being human: to make room for the different, sometimes contradictory parts of ourselves, while remaining open to the multiplicity of others. As a relationally oriented analyst, I seek to create an environment of genuine openness through an unscripted dialogue in which neither of us can know in advance exactly where the work will lead.
This requires a willingness to get lost — to move beyond the familiar explanations and fixed ideas we have about ourselves and others, and to allow something less certain to emerge. Psychoanalytic treatment is not only about helping what is hidden become visible; it can also mean rendering the visible less concrete, distilling our certainties into the vapors of complexity and nuance.
We have to be willing to challenge the reifications of our identities and the assuredness of what we think we know, and ultimately to have faith that, in getting lost within ourselves and with each other, we can find our way back.
Psychoanalysis offers us a unique opportunity to build a new relational home alongside the home we already inhabit. And when enough new insight and experience is gained, we can begin to build a bridge between the past of who we were and the future of who we hope to become.
For clinicians
Supervision & consultation
A space where two subjectivities meet — for dialogue, curiosity, and complexity rather than instruction or certainty.
Traditional models of supervision often position the supervisor as an authority; the one who evaluates, corrects, and instructs. I work differently. I believe the therapist in the room has the most immediate knowledge of their patient, and that their felt sense of what is alive in the work deserves primacy. My role is to enter that experience alongside them: to listen closely to how the patient comes through in the therapist's own affective and relational responses, and to bring my own experience and reflective presence into dialogue with theirs.
A therapist's subjectivity is not something to be corrected or managed; it is one of the primary portals into what is happening with the patient. I try to meet that subjectivity with an equal openness about my own. In this way, supervision becomes a space where two subjectivities meet. It is often in that meeting that something otherwise hidden comes into view — a lapse in attunement, an enactment, a place where the treatment has become stuck, or a place where it has unexpectedly come alive.
Together, we can develop a more honest relationship to our own humanity, including the places where our own histories inevitably enter the work. This kind of self-knowledge allows us to remain more closely and courageously connected to our patients — and, ultimately, creates greater freedom for the treatment to move forward.
About me
I care deeply about this work, and about the people I do it with.
I'm a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, in practice for over a decade. I completed my graduate degree at New York University, followed by four years of postgraduate psychoanalytic training at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, one of New York City's premier training institutes. I'm licensed in both New York and California, and I work with people online, by video.
I believe in the transformative power of honesty, authenticity, and unconditional positive regard. Much of my attention goes to building a relationship of real clarity and comfort between us — because I believe the heart of this work lives there, in the relationship itself.
- Licence — New York
- 088098-1
- Licence — California
- LCSW139719
- Graduate degree
- New York University
- Psychoanalytic training
- National Institute for the PsychotherapiesFour-year postgraduate program
Beginning
A willingness to turn toward your own experience.
Whether you're considering therapy, psychoanalysis, or supervision, I'd be glad to hear from you. Sessions are online, from wherever you are in New York or California.
Contact
I'd love to hear from you.
Online sessions for adults in New York and California. Enquiries by phone, email, or the form.
- Telephone
- 480 334 9653
- Format
- Online, by video