I practice from the belief that therapy is a powerful place to process and integrate trauma, loss and pain, without allowing life to be limited by those experiences.

Our instincts often tell us to avoid pain - to repress traumatic material, to run from intimacy that might betray us, to ignore our physical pain, to stay the course even when it makes us unhappy, and to bury our unpleasant emotions and thoughts in distraction, dissociation, substances, other people’s problems, and recurring anxiety spirals and depressive episodes.

My approach to therapy is to find a way, together, to stop avoiding the human experience. In the process, we reveal an authentic you, unburdened by the past and unafraid of the future.

My sessions are confrontational and insight-oriented. I encourage clients to consider their inner worlds, and to confront long-held narratives about themselves and the world. We work together to develop acceptance around challenges like difficult family dynamics, past traumas or chronic health conditions, and from there, identify how you’d like to live with these truths.

I have training in somatic (body-focused), behavioral (action-oriented) and psychodynamic (insight-informed) schools of thought, and utilize a combination of therapy modalities to uniquely serve your therapy goals. This includes practices from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which supports adaptation, acceptance and values-aligned choices in the face of challenging emotions. I also practice Internal Family Systems (IFS), which teaches how to integrate and heal all “parts” of ourselves, even ones we label as bad.

I offer Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) sessions on their own or integrated into existing therapy work, and practice EMDR from an attachment-informed and IFS-integrated lens. By activating and re-regulating the nervous system, EMDR allows traumatic material and old negative self-beliefs to lose their power. My sessions may also include practices from mindfulness, pain science, nervous system regulation, attachment-based therapy, mind-body work, and relational therapy.

I work with people of all ages and identities, and find many (though not all) of my clients may resonate with being labelled high insight, neurodivergent, people-pleasing or perfectionist, conflict avoidant, highly sensitive, parentified as children, or caregivers in their relationships. I frequently work with folks on their attachment habits and relational conflicts, past traumas including C-PTSD, grief and loss, chronic illness, chronic pain, anxiety, and mood disorders.

Therapy is serious work, but my room is also always filled with warmth, curiosity and humor. My hope is clients leave treatment feeling a deeper sense of internal stability and peace.

Prior to being a therapist, I worked in film and television, where I nursed a love of storytelling and expression that persists in my work with clients today. Outside of therapy, you may run into me reading at a cafe, watching a movie at Nitehawk Cinema, or walking with my dog Goose in Brooklyn.