Henri Matisse, Still Life with Geranium, 1906
Relational Psychodynamic Therapy
Do you feel caught in a pattern you can’t escape?
Together we can disrupt this cycle.
I am a warm, relational therapist who works with adults and couples experiencing deep-rooted emotional concerns. I work with people struggling with anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, grief, low self-esteem, shame, attachment trauma, and support them in navigating significant life transitions. I work with couples to navigate tumultuous experiences in their relationships: betrayals of trust, parenting, and challenges with fertility. I have an additional interest and speciality working with therapists and their partners.
I move beyond surface level symptoms so that people can understand and work through the root of their challenges. Enhancing insight into relational patterns and their origins, I support people in disrupting cycles that keep them stuck.
I do not believe in prescriptive solutions, but instead offer a secure base for exploration, expansion, and investigation. I practice relational psychoanalytic therapy; I treat what happens in the therapeutic relationship as the primary tool for healing, transformation, and understanding past relational patterns.
Education & Training
University of Chicago: AM in Social Work, Psychodynamic concentration
University of Pennsylvania: BA in History, minor in Psychology (summa cum laude)
The Stephen Mitchell Relational Center: Program in Relational Studies
Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis: Fellowship in Psychoanalysis
Gottman Couples Therapy (level 1)
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) (level 1)