My Approach
I’m a board-certified adult psychiatrist with highly specialized training in depth psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Combining the different perspectives offered by psychiatry and psychoanalysis allows me to provide thoughtful and uniquely tailored care that takes into account the wholeness and complexity of the person seeking my help. My patients learn to use the present moment of the treatment relationship to bring new attention to familiar patterns and emotional challenges, so that fresh solutions to life’s many problems might be safely explored. I’m very attuned to the disruptive impact of trauma on the developing personality and nervous system - especially with regard to the capacity to exist safely within relationship. I strive to create conditions in treatment that help my patients to find and harness their own innate drives to grow, develop, and speak confidently using their own voices.
Who do I treat?
I provide treatment to adults of all ages across the lifespan. I treat a wide range of concerns including problems with mood and anxiety, difficulties with intimacy and relationships, PTSD and complex forms of developmental trauma, challenging stage-of-life transitions, loss and bereavement, concerns regarding gender and sexuality, problems stemming from socially and culturally located trauma, living with pain and/or medical illness, as well as other problems adapting to stressful circumstances. As a psychiatrist, I am an expert in the evaluation of mental health concerns through a medical lens and can provide consultation regarding existing medication treatments or explore the potential risks and benefits of a range of medical or biologically oriented treatments where appropriate.