A few words on how I work.

I practice psychoanalytic psychotherapy primarily from the Relational Psychoanalytic perspective. This kind of analytic work is both collaborative and active, as well as challenging (this is therapy after all), and tends to bring with it a dimension of somatic focus (i.e., how the body feels: the body’s experience).

As a side-note, if you are picturing psychoanalytic treatment as one where I listen and then render “objective” interpretations, you may lay it to rest: it’s safely outmoded.

Apart from my foundation in psychodynamic theory and practice, my work draws from my background in the fine arts, social work, political thought, and various cultural and religious traditions including taoism, buddhism, vedanta, christianity, islam, judaism, and pagan mysticism. My work is, for all intents and purposes, secular and grounded in peer-reviewed research, and has been, in one form or another, a long-held area of study throughout my life. I bring a conscientious and enduring passion to this work, and I consider it a privilege to undertake it.

Education

• Current enrollment (2024): Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the William A. White Institute, NYC.

• Master of Social Work. Children, Youth, and Family focus. University of Washington at Seattle.

• Bachelor of Arts. English major. University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

• YT200. Vedanta and Ashtanga informed Yoga Teacher Training. Bainbridge Island, WA.