I'm a licensed psychotherapist and educator based in Cambridge, MA.
My practice is guided by the understanding that we become who we are through our relationships and the stories we carry from them. I draw from a psychodynamic and relational approach, which means I give attention to how memories of past experience continue to shape our present patterns of relating to ourselves and others. In therapy, we work together to uncover and reauthor these patterns, freeing up new possibilities in how we think, feel, and engage with ourselves and the world.
To help transform insight into creative change, I also help clients incorporate experiential and somatic strategies — including techniques from EMDR, parts work, ACT, DBT, and Gestalt — that address the role of the body and implicit memory in emotion, attachment, and trauma. My style is authentic and warm, and I work with clients to enrich therapy with diverse sources of meaning and lived experience — including art, culture, storytelling, politics, philosophy, and humor.
I work with adults of all ages navigating a range of issues, including anxiety, depression, grief, anger, phobias, personality difficulties, social anxiety, self-esteem challenges, life transitions, and issues related to life meaning, personal values, and self-actualization.
I have particular experience working with trauma and trauma-related concerns — including single incident PTSD, complex trauma, adverse attachment experiences, and the ways relational and developmental trauma shape patterns of attachment, identity, and relating.
I have expertise in relationships, attachment, and interpersonal issues — including relationship conflict, intimacy and emotional distance, attachment patterns, codependency, loneliness, and the challenges of navigating family dynamics and social connection. I offer an affirming space for LGBTQ+ clients, polyamorous clients, and people exploring questions of identity, intimacy, sexuality, and relationship norms.
I have extensive experience working with students, academics, creatives, professionals, and career changers facing challenges of identity, purpose, and vocation — including performance anxiety, perfectionism, burnout, creative blocks, and difficulty finding fulfillment while navigating cultures that tie personal worth to productivity and achievement.
My clinical training includes work at the Department of Outpatient Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital with a legacy for providing psychodynamic and trauma-informed therapy. At CHA, I provided psychodynamic therapy as an embedded therapist in an interdisciplinary outpatient care team. The clinical culture at CHA — shaped by the trauma research of Judith Herman and the contemplative work of the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion — was formative in my integrative approach.
I also hold a PhD in philosophy from Boston University, where I teach and publish in moral psychology, focusing on the role of emotional experience in self-awareness and interpersonal relating. 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.
Since completing licensure, I am currently completing a three-year Postgraduate Fellowship in Relational Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Cambridge, MA. This training has deepened my understanding of how early relational and attachment experiences become internalized as templates for relating — and how the therapy relationship itself can become a place where those patterns are surfaced and revised.
I'm currently seeing clients at Clinical Alliance Services in Cambridge, MA. Prospective clients can inquire through my profile on Psychology Today.