About

I'm a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in Brooklyn Heights and a fourth-year candidate at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. I also completed Altered States of Body and Mind, a one-year psychoanalytic program at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies on compulsive patterns, addictive processes, and dissociation. I've been in practice for nine years and am licensed in New York as a clinical social worker.

I became a therapist the way a lot of people do, which is to say circuitously. I studied philosophy and literature before I studied clinical work, and I think that background shows up in how I practice. I'm drawn to contradiction, to the things people say that don't quite match what they do. I trained in psychodynamic therapy and went further into psychoanalysis because I kept running into the limits of short-term, goal-oriented work. Not because those approaches are wrong; they just stop too soon.

My analytic training at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS) shaped how I listen. The relational-psychoanalytic tradition takes seriously the idea that people don't just have problems to fix. They have internal worlds that developed for reasons. Alongside that training, I completed Altered States of Body and Mind at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, a year of study on compulsive patterns and the states of mind underneath them. It's a large part of why so much of my work is with people whose habits have quietly started running them.

I've also consulted on character psychology for a television series produced by Jellysmack. It turned out to use the same muscles as clinical work: noticing what people say, what they do, and the distance between the two.

Much of that work is with men. I think there's something useful in a man looking at his patterns of distance with a woman, since so many of those patterns were first learned in relationships with women. I also work with women who have spent years doubting what they already know.

Therapy that works changes not only symptoms but the patterns that produce them, and that kind of shift takes a certain kind of attention and a certain amount of time. I see people individually in my office in Brooklyn Heights and by telehealth across New York State, in weekly psychotherapy and in psychoanalysis at three or more sessions a week.

Outside the consulting room, I've worked as an on-set therapist and psychological consultant for an independent unscripted series — advising production on the dynamics between participants before and during filming, and meeting with each participant afterward to help them process what happened on camera.

“Thoughtful, empathetic, insightful, and — quite simply — a really great therapist.”

— Verified patient, Zocdoc · Read all reviews →

Training & credentials

• Psychoanalytic Candidate, Four-Year Certificate Program in Psychoanalysis, Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS)
• Altered States of Body and Mind: one-year program on compulsive patterns, addictive processes, and dissociative states, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS)
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker, New York State, #092083 · Nine years in clinical practice