I practice psychiatry with a focus on helping clients know themselves more fully while navigating the often challenging — but ultimately rewarding — process of personal transformation. For me, care is most effective when it respects the complexity of the individual. I offer thoughtful, tailored support that takes each person on their terms.

Earlier in my career, I worked within a major medical center, where I valued the collaborative community of clinicians committed to learning and providing the best possible care. It was in that setting that I discovered my interest in psychotherapy. Witnessing the unfolding of insight and emotional growth in patients was profoundly meaningful and solidified my dedication to this work. Alongside residency training, I completed a year-long psychoanalytic fellowship, which deepened my understanding of unconscious processes and character structures.

I have experience treating panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and OCD. These often involve a pattern where distressing but non-dangerous situations are interpreted as threats. Avoidance may bring short-term relief, but over time, it reinforces this threat response, conditioning the nervous system to react with heightened urgency. Psychotherapy helps interrupt this cycle by fostering new ways of approaching these experiences — building awareness and flexibility in the face of discomfort. The aim isn’t to erase difficult feelings; it’s to change how you relate to them so you can keep your sense of agency in deciding how to act.

My clinical style is flexible and integrative. I draw on psychodynamic and psychoanalytic principles, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), using medication integration when appropriate. I’ve worked with college students and young adults, members of the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities, healthcare workers, and high-achieving or perfectionistic individuals. Across personalities and modalities, I believe effective work begins with collaboration — selecting interventions together, adjusting as we learn more, and keeping the person, not just the symptoms, at the center.

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