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As a licensed psychotherapist, college educator, and academic philosopher, I draw on a varied background of clinical training and education.  

 

I completed my clinical practicum for licensure (LCSW) through the Department of Outpatient Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital. At CHA, I provided psychodynamic therapy as part of an interdisciplinary psychiatric care team. The clinical culture at CHA — rooted in the trauma research of Judith Herman and the experiential and somatic research of the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion — was formative in shaping my integrative approach to psychodynamic therapy.

 

I also hold a PhD in philosophy from Boston University, where I teach courses and publish research in philosophy and moral psychology. My research focuses on the role of emotional experience in moral agency and interpersonal relating, including issues of self-awareness, emotional intentionality, and intersubjective mental states like empathy, compassion, and love. I draw on my experience as a college educator — teaching courses in philosophy, critical thinking, ethics, and social issues — to help clients find agency and change as they navigate questions of meaning, identity, and social connection.

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Since completing clinical licensure, I have pursued advanced training through a three-year Postgraduate Fellowship in Relational Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at Clinical Alliance Services in Cambridge, with a focus on attachment theory and the relational psychoanalytic tradition. This training has deepened my understanding of how early relational experiences become internalized as templates for relating — and how the therapeutic relationship itself can become a vehicle for revising them