​I received doctoral training in psychodynamic psychotherapy at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. Psychodynamic therapies focus on how your internal world develops as the result of the quality of your relationships, both past and present. Thus, my first goal as your therapist is to establish a safe relationship that serves as a solid foundation for broad psychological exploration.

 

As your comfort increases in the therapy room, we will explore what is troubling you at your pace. This may mean processing something in your past, tackling a purely "here-and-now" issue, or, as is so often the case, uncovering how past experiences might be informing the present. If you have a chronic physical illness, we will also use therapy to explore how it's impacting your mental health and global functioning across social, emotional, and vocational spheres, and how to integrate the sometimes- new, very difficult realities you are facing.

 

In some instances, simply developing insight is the key to feeling better; in others, a more concrete problem-solving approach is most effective. Using psychotherapy techniques derived from my psychodynamic training and attachment theory, we will clarify your concerns, foster insight about them, and develop effective ways to cope and reduce emotional pain.

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