About
I'm a licensed clinical social worker and psychoanalyst trained in modern psychoanalytic theory, somatic psychotherapy, and relational approaches. I've been in practice for over a decade, working with adults managing complex presentations: treatment-resistant depression, relational patterns that keep repeating, high-functioning anxiety, creative blocks, professionals navigating burnout, and people tired of surface-level interventions.
My training includes psychoanalytic education through the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and the Institute for a Democratic Psychoanalysis, alongside extensive study in somatic and contemplative approaches. I'm licensed in Oregon, Maryland, New York, and Idaho, and I work with clients both in-person and remotely.
I work psychoanalytically, which means we're interested in unconscious process—the defenses, patterns, and relational dynamics that organize your inner and outer life. We pay attention to how experiences register in your body, how old patterns show up in current relationships, and what emerges between us in the therapeutic relationship itself. This requires honesty, patience, and a willingness to examine what's uncomfortable. It's not easy work, but it's effective.
People come to me when other approaches haven't worked, when they're dealing with something more complex than anxiety or depression alone, or when they want depth rather than symptom relief. I work with medical students and residents navigating the pressures of clinical training, college and graduate students sorting out identity and direction, and adults managing the gap between external success and internal experience.
Clients describe me as direct, insightful, and unafraid of difficult material. I don't offer reassurance or platitudes. I offer sustained attention to what's actually happening and the tools to understand and shift it.
Outside clinical work, I serve on the board of the Ashland Independent Film Festival and maintain involvement with the Baltimore Psychoanalytic Film Festival—work that reflects my interest in how unconscious life finds expression in culture and art.
I'm a licensed clinical social worker and psychoanalyst trained in modern psychoanalytic theory, somatic psychotherapy, and relational approaches. I've been in practice for over a decade, working with adults managing complex presentations: treatment-resistant depression, relational patterns that keep repeating, high-functioning anxiety, creative blocks, professionals navigating burnout, and people tired of surface-level interventions.
My training includes psychoanalytic education through the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and the Institute for a Democratic Psychoanalysis, alongside extensive study in somatic and contemplative approaches. I'm licensed in Oregon, Maryland, New York, and Idaho, and I work with clients both in-person and remotely.
I work psychoanalytically, which means we're interested in unconscious process—the defenses, patterns, and relational dynamics that organize your inner and outer life. We pay attention to how experiences register in your body, how old patterns show up in current relationships, and what emerges between us in the therapeutic relationship itself. This requires honesty, patience, and a willingness to examine what's uncomfortable. It's not easy work, but it's effective.
People come to me when other approaches haven't worked, when they're dealing with something more complex than anxiety or depression alone, or when they want depth rather than symptom relief. I work with medical students and residents navigating the pressures of clinical training, college and graduate students sorting out identity and direction, and adults managing the gap between external success and internal experience.
Clients describe me as direct, insightful, and unafraid of difficult material. I don't offer reassurance or platitudes. I offer sustained attention to what's actually happening and the tools to understand and shift it.
Outside clinical work, I serve on the board of the Ashland Independent Film Festival and maintain involvement with the Baltimore Psychoanalytic Film Festival—work that reflects my interest in how unconscious life finds expression in culture and art.