Through therapy, you can more fully discover who you are and what you desire, what saddens and excites you, and what dictates your unsatisfying choices. You can develop better communication skills and learn to listen to yourself, deepen your understanding of your limitations and strengths, and realize your full capacities in work and love.

Psychotherapy requires an investment of time, money, and emotional energy, but it is qualitatively different from other investments. Sometimes people resort to eating, drinking, clothes, sex, compulsive achievements, and other similar behaviors to feel better about themselves, to keep chaos and fears at bay, or to fill an inner void. In most instances, these habits prove unreliable and unsatisfying.  Many people have not developed an inner compass that reliably signals what or who is healthy or unhealthy. They rely on other people’s feedback for direction, and repeatedly find themselves in unhappy situations. Psychotherapy, on the other hand, helps you to become more comfortable with yourself and to relate to others in a freer and more satisfying way. Psychotherapy is an investment in your sustainable well-being.

My goal is to help people develop a wider range of emotional experiences, and find relief from symptoms, conflicts, and difficulties, including panic and anxiety, shame and depression. The therapeutic experience may also include helping someone navigate cultural demands and temperamental inclinations in order to feel more alive and connected in one’s mind and body, and to find one’s own version of a meaningful life.

I work with people that do not have major personality or mood disorders but seek my collaboration to set their goals and fiercely improve performance and success. I work with people who have difficulties at school and work, have ADHD, experience writer’s block, or simply tend to procrastinate. I have experience in helping relieve depression, anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and childhood and sexual trauma. I help people find stress relief from psychosomatic symptoms and addictive or disordered behavior.  I also help people heal relationship problems such as infidelity, conflict, anger, jealousy, and envy. Some of my clients struggle with a sense of deadness and are searching for an authentic sense of self and connection with the world. I work with minorities, immigrants, and those who feel different or experience microaggression and misrecognition. I like working with people who are seeking a path, who need to mitigate shame and guilt, or who wish to increase happiness and contentment. I am interested in helping build resilience and looking for new ways to tackle negative patterns and chronic difficulties. I also specialize in dream analysis and dream interpretation.

I believe in an integrative approach tailored to your needs and preferences, from deep psychoanalytic work, to resilience and motivation building and coaching. Our work is participatory, which means I not only listen but also share my reaction and perspective to what I hear, without being intrusive. I give you the space to formulate your thoughts. Your feedback will help us adjust the rhythm and get in synch. I believe that the togetherness of therapy, as we collaborate on a life improvement project, also helps shape and improve relationships outside of therapy. I believe in therapeutic diversity, meaning that except for notable cases that require a single approach, I engage people with a psychodynamic component, bringing insight on patterns that have been established through time; a mindfulness component, offering self-soothing techniques to balance the nervous system; and a cognitive behavioral approach (CBT), offering behavioral and cognitive restructuring exercises as needed; all while keeping in mind the individual in their socio-economic context and how intersectionality plays a part of their experience. If you have been disappointed by conventional psychotherapy and haven’t received sufficient feedback; if you have experienced a cookie cutter approach that left you feeling alone and misunderstood; I may be right for you.

For therapeutic success it is important to find a therapist that you can click with.  Either for mental health or mental illness relief, there are many choices: psychologists, mental health counselors, social workers, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, coaches, and more. Some may have few credentials and broad interests while others have Ivy League degrees and narrow specializations.  Above all it is important to find someone who is warm, experienced, and intelligent, someone who puts you at ease, understands your goals, and is responsive to your feedback.