About Me
As a therapist, educator, and project developer, I am committed to working relationships that recognize our intertwined personal and communal needs in an ever-shifting world.
I offer a warm and affirming therapeutic space and invite you to come as you are so that we can explore your internal and interpersonal worlds and work collaboratively toward the goals that feel right to you. I work from an anti-oppressive lens, acknowledging the impact of interpersonal, systemic, and intergenerational traumas.
Along with traditional talk-therapy techniques, we can tap into non-verbal tools like art and even play to ease your journey of exploration and healing.
To learn more about how you can partner with me for trainings or project development, see my page on consultation.
Therapy Approach
I practice from a psychodynamic and relational framework. Together we’ll explore how early messages and relationships have shaped your strengths and resiliencies as well as the expectations, worries, and doubts that may be keeping you stuck.
I am currently a candidate in a five-year psychoanalytic training program. I offer the option to meet more than once a week. This increased frequency of sessions can offer a deeper exploration into your experiences and psyche.
I have a background in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Integrating this approach can help us sort through and start to rework unhelpful thought processes that might be going on behind the scenes and keeping you from changes you want to make in your life.
It’s okay if these words are unfamiliar or even confusing to you. The most important thing to know is that I am committed to working with you. I am an interactive therapist, which means you’ll hear my thoughts and reactions. We’ll be in dialogue together throughout our work, all in service of helping clarify your own emotions, desires, and needs, and amplify the inner voice that can act as your guide when our work together ends. I will bring expertise in mental health, you bring the expertise in who you are, where you come from, and what you want out of life.
Background & Training
Education:
Current psychoanalytic training candidate at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis
Masters of Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, 2019
Graduate of the Child Trauma Program at Hunter College, 2019
Training:
Trauma Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapies Institute: Foundations Course, 2023
Ackerman Institute for the Family’s Gender and Family Project: one-year training in work with transgender youth and their families, 2020
Trauma-Focused CBT practitioner. Trained with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2018
Affiliations:
National Child Traumatic Stress Network, individual affiliate
National Association of Social Workers, member
Women’s Mental Health Consortium, member
