How I approach therapy

My practice integrates existential, humanistic, and contemporary psychoanalytic approaches to psychotherapy.

This means that our work together will endeavor to go beyond strategies for short term symptom relief or behavior modification, moving to also address the roots of suffering and invite deeper transformation.

We’ll aim light at what lives beyond your conscious awareness. From the vantage point of the shared present, we’ll consider your formative past — and the social, cultural, and intergenerational forces that shaped your life and selfhood. In doing so, we’ll seek to expand self-understanding and compassion, and foster greater agency with which to navigate a life well lived.

Together, we’ll reckon with the human condition: our isolation, the inevitability of death, the responsibility we bear for our own lives, our quest for meaning and purpose. We’ll strive to be with what is, even when this involves giving our attention to what hurts. With new awareness and insight, and through novel experiences, clients come to know themselves and their place in the world differently. Change is set in motion.

I practice from a relational stance that recognizes the unique interplay between client and therapist is at the heart of our therapeutic work. My style is warm, engaged, grounded, and collaborative. 

I have had the privilege of working with people across a wide range of cultural and racial backgrounds, ages, gender identities, sexual orientations, and mental health challenges. My practice affirms LGBTQIA+ individuals, consensual nonmonogamy, kink, sex work, and harm reduction. I believe that individual care and collective liberation are reciprocal.

I love what I do.