Explore what brings you here.
Always thinking three steps ahead? Replaying conversations, anticipating what could go wrong, trying to make the “right” decision or obsessively predict what will happen next? We’ll help turn down the volume on the worry while getting curious about why your mind learned to work this hard in the first place.
Sometimes a feeling takes over before you know what’s happening. We’ll explore your emotional range and how to resource your nervous system, like working with music. Sometimes that means softening what overwhelms and finding more choices in how you respond to challenging feelings.
An emptiness that’s more than just sadness. The word depression literally means “being forced downwards.” Depression can be a signal for the need for change or reconnection with your purpose in life. We’ll draw on your existing resources, listen more closely to what you need, and find ways to get moving again. Depression hates a moving target.
We’ll explore what helps you engage and how your attention works, while loosening the self-criticism that can come from years of feeling like you should be doing more.
Intrusive thoughts and endless checking can make your world feel smaller. We'll work to create more freedom in how you respond.
I work from a harm reduction perspective. We’ll explore your relationship with substances: what they offer, what they cost, and what you want to change. Your safety and goals will guide our work.
Sometimes the old map just doesn’t tell us where to go next. New relationships, endings, career changes, moves, loss, and other turning points can leave us without our usual bearings. Therapy can help you find your footing, make sense of what you’re leaving behind, and figure out what comes next.
It’s hard to feel at home in yourself when you’re constantly measuring, criticizing, or second-guessing who you are. We’ll loosen the grip of old ideas about who you’re supposed to be and help you get comfortable with who you actually are.
“I force myself to contradict myself so as to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
— Marcel Duchamp
A creative block is an invitation to get outside of what you know and look from a new perspective. We’ll follow what still has a pulse and find our way back to whatever made you want to make things in the first place.
Consider therapy a studio visit where you don’t have to pretend the work is going great.
I enjoy working with artists who want to better understand themselves and the work they make. I often bring art-making into therapy, from Winnicott’s collaborative “Squiggle” technique to custom card decks I create with clients. I have an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and spent years working in fine art and commercial creative contexts before finding my way to psychotherapy.
Sometimes it’s easier to write it down than say it out loud. We might use free writing, stories, letters, and poetry to explore your experience and deepen your connection with yourself.
What if the parts of yourself you’ve been trying to get rid of are actually worth getting to know? We’ll make room for the messy, embarrassing, weird, and otherwise “unacceptable” parts of you and see what else got buried beside them.
Dreams don’t need to make sense to be worth paying attention to. They have a language of their own. We’ll follow the images, associations, feelings, and details to see where they take us.
Something happened that overwhelmed your ability to cope. We’ll work at a gentle pace with what you’re still carrying, so the past doesn’t have to keep hijacking the present. I’m trained in EMDR, a trauma-focused approach that works with both mind and body to help stuck experiences get unstuck.
EMDR can be used to work with distressing memories and the body responses connected to them. Using bilateral stimulation, we’ll work toward making those experiences less overwhelming and opening up new ways of relating to yourself.
Chronic misattunement and insecure attachment can follow us into adult relationships, but attachment wounds don’t have to define us. We’ll look at how you adapted to the people you needed during childhood, and whether those same strategies are still working. Then we’ll work toward feeling more secure in yourself and with others.
Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprints. Loss is a profoundly transformative experience. We will honor your grief on its own terms and at its own pace, without rushing you toward being finished with it.
We’re hurt in relationships, and we heal in them too. We’ll look at the patterns that keep showing up with the people who matter most, including what happens between us in the room. Therapy gives us a place to notice those patterns as they happen, try something different, and do the harder work of real intimacy.
It’s easy to lose track of yourself when you’re busy keeping everyone else okay. We’ll explore your own needs and what it’s like to care for someone without having to manage everything they feel.
I love helping couples rediscover what made them choose each other in the first place.
Being in love doesn’t mean we stop getting each other wrong. Even lovers lose the thread. We’ll slow things down, look at what’s happening between you, rebuild what’s been hurt, and make room for intimacy and desire as you grow and change.
All kinds of relationships are welcome. My work is LGBTQ+ affirming, kink-friendly, and open to monogamy, polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of consensual non-monogamy.
I work with parents and children, siblings, and families trying to find their way through conflict, change, or disconnection. We’ll slow things down so you can actually hear each other, make room for difficult conversations, and find your way back to greater understanding and connection.
Sex is rarely just about sex. Desire can tell us a lot about who we are and what we need. I provide a place to get curious about all of it without judgment or a predetermined idea of what your sexuality is supposed to look like.
My work is sex-positive, LGBTQ+ affirming, and kink-friendly, with room for the complicated and unconventional parts of your sexual self.
There’s no single way to be a man. We’ll get curious about what being a man means to you, where you learned it, and what you’ve learned to carry alone.
Loneliness, anger, sadness, sex and intimacy, relationships, and purpose can all be part of this terrain. We’ll explore the pressures that come with being a man, including the feeling that whatever you’re dealing with, you should be able to handle it yourself. And if you’d rather be literally anywhere else than in therapy, you’re welcome too.
There’s no single way to be a woman. We’ll get curious about the contradictions, including the distance between what you want and what you’ve been taught to want. Anger, sadness, desire, relationships, identity, and finding your own voice can all be part of this terrain.
Being a woman also means living in a body that changes. PMDD, pregnancy and postpartum, fertility, and perimenopause can profoundly affect how you feel and how you experience yourself. We’ll make room for the realities of being a woman that may not always get taken seriously.
We’ll make room for who you are, who you’ve been, and who you’re becoming.
Less masking. More you.
Maybe you’ve always felt you experience the world differently. Whether you have ADHD, are autistic, or are living with the aftereffects of a traumatic brain injury, we’ll get curious about your experience of the world. We’ll celebrate what makes you different and work with your wiring, not against it. We’ll also help you navigate a world that often expects everyone to think and speak the same.
I offer the option of using the couch in the psychoanalytic tradition. Without another person’s face in front of you, there can be more room to wander and free-associate.
Therapy isn’t only about what’s wrong. Problem hunting only gets us so far. We’ll also pay attention to what’s already working: your relationships, values, and the parts of your life that give you energy. Sometimes the way forward starts with making better use of what’s already there.
Sometimes understanding our patterns just isn’t enough. Listening to the body can open up something new. We’ll slow down and notice what’s happening in your body: tension, breath, numbness, restlessness. There may be something to hear before we have the words for it.
Eroticism is bigger than sex. It’s about desire, imagination, pleasure, curiosity, and what makes you feel alive. We’ll get curious about where that energy shows up in your life, where it disappears, and what might help you find your way back to it.
Play gives us somewhere to go that we couldn’t get by thinking harder. I welcome experimentation and play in the therapy room. Sometimes getting less reasonable is exactly what gets us unstuck.
Play allows us to expand the number of possible outcomes we’re willing to entertain and how we relate to those possibilities. It enhances our neuroplasticity and expands the brain’s capacity.
What do you want? It’s a surprisingly difficult question. Therapy can be a great place to start to answer this for yourself.
Active imagination is a way of following an image, feeling, fantasy, or scene wherever it wants to go. This work can be deeply revealing. We can also use the imagination to create resources, find grounding, and build places to return to when things feel overwhelming. Sometimes what we imagine can become something we carry with us into the real world.
Inspired by D.W. Winnicott’s Squiggle Game, we might make drawings together as a way to play, communicate without words, and see what emerges. Think of it as a side door to the unconscious, where creative expression can lead us somewhere talking alone might not.
Not everything fits neatly into a category. If what brought you here isn’t listed, rest assured we’ll make space for it and explore it together. You don’t need to know exactly what the problem is before we begin.
I work with high-achievers navigating stress, burnout, ambition, difficult work relationships, and the pressure to keep performing. We’ll make room for coping with work stressors and how to succeed without losing yourself in the process.