About me
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 10 years of experience. I specialize in psychodynamic and relational psychotherapy.
Psychodynamic therapy comes from a long tradition of insight-oriented work. In practice, this means listening for patterns in thoughts, emotions, and relationships, and exploring the unconscious processes that may shape them. Our past leaves traces in the present, shaping how we experience ourselves and how we connect with people in our lives. Together, we may look at how early experiences, relationships, and social pressures have influenced the beliefs you hold about yourself and others.
The relational aspect of therapy is equally important to me. The therapeutic relationship itself can be a meaningful space where you feel seen, understood, and supported. Within that relationship, we can explore patterns as they emerge and experiment with new ways of relating—to yourself and to others.
My approach to treatment
Therapy is one avenue to building a life that is more authentic, connected, and filled with meaning. My goal as a therapist is to co-create a space that is warm and safe where you can approach issues from a strengths-based lens, and where curiosity and creativity can flourish. As a therapist, I value my unique relationship with each client, and I am deeply grateful to be able to witness growth, meaning-making, and changes in a client’s life. Therapy is a unique, personal, and specific journey, and I am humbled and eager to be on that journey with each individual client.
My approach weaves together psychoanalytic thinking, parts work, and an understanding of how identity, environment, and systems, such as capitalism, healthcare structures, and social injustices, shape our emotional worlds. I work affirmatively with LGBTQIA+ clients, and I work with an understanding of intersectional identity. I strive to create a therapeutic space that feels grounded, inclusive, and genuinely collaborative.
I primarily practice long-term relational psychotherapy. Long-term therapy can be valuable in attending to long held patterns, and attachment concerns. I believe that a safe therapeutic relationship is a powerful vehicle of change as it will allow us to explore deeply within the safety of the therapeutic relationship.
Relational therapy is a type of psychodynamic therapy that focuses on relationships as a primary source of human flourishing and points for understanding patterns. This includes exploration of current relationship dynamics and patterns, early relational experiences, familial patterns and dynamics, as well as a the therapeutic relationship between us.
