Welcome to my practice.

Psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families ready to change the patterns that keep them stuck

I provide depth-oriented individual psychotherapy for children, adolescents, and adults. I also offer couples counseling and family therapy. Multiple schools of thought inform my therapeutic approach, including psychodynamic, British object relations, attachment-based approaches, psychoanalysis, and systemic family therapy. Central to my therapeutic stance is my conviction that individuals and families deserve a setting safe enough that current pain may be understood in relation to personal and family history and present-day circumstances. Together, we will look at aspects of your biological and emotional development, significant relationships, and any significant cultural, environmental, and social considerations.

Psychotherapy involves exploring painful areas of your life while we are together. Recalling unpleasant events and becoming aware of feelings, memories, and associations linked to these events can stir up feelings of despair, guilt, rage, frustration, anxiety, loneliness, and helplessness. You have taken a significant step by choosing to seek out therapeutic treatment, and yet, the outcome of this treatment depends largely on your willingness to engage in the process, which at times will result in you feeling considerable discomfort. There are no miracle cures, and I make no guarantee that therapy will lead to improvement. I will do my best to understand you and your repeating patterns and help you to clarify what it is that you want for yourself.

Psychotherapy can have positive effects, such as improved relationships, stronger connections with family members, relief from distressing symptoms, and improved performance at work and school. But being in therapy is also work. It will require an attitude of collaboration, openness, and a willingness to invest time, effort, and resources in working toward change.