We do not live outside the world.
Our lives take shape within families, neighborhoods, workplaces, institutions, and environments. The conditions in which we live—including economic insecurity, discrimination, isolation, and environmental harm—belong in the conversation about how we feel.
This doesn’t mean your experience can be explained away by a theory about society. It means we don’t have to treat everything painful as evidence of something defective within you.
There is room here for your history and your present circumstances; for what happens within you and what happens around you. We can ask not only “Why do I feel this way?” but also “What have I had to live with? What has been missing? What do I need now?”
Therapy is not another demand to improve yourself.
You do not have to turn your suffering into a productivity project. You do not need to arrive ready to become a better version of yourself.
You can bring uncertainty, anger, grief, ambivalence, or the feeling that you have nothing useful to say. You can question what you’ve been told about yourself—including what you’ve been told in treatment.
We can take your ways of coping seriously: what they have helped you survive, what they have made possible, and where they may now be limiting your life. Understanding that history need not mean leaving everything as it is.
Therapy cannot remove every constraint or repair the world outside the room. But it can offer a relationship in which you are not alone with these questions, and a place to work out what you want to accept, change, refuse, or pursue.
What happens between us matters.
I bring clinical experience and ways of thinking that may be useful. You bring knowledge of your life that I cannot have in advance. We will need both.
I want us to develop a language that makes sense to you, rather than ask you to translate yourself into mine. You can disagree with me, tell me when something misses the mark, or take time to decide what feels worth exploring.
Our work may involve looking closely at familiar patterns. It may also involve trying something unfamiliar: asking for help, expressing anger, allowing closeness, setting a limit, or making space for a desire you have learned to dismiss.
The point is not to arrive at a final explanation of who you are. It is to make more room to live.
What you can bring
You don’t need a diagnosis or a clearly defined problem to begin. I work with adults around:
- Difficult or recurring patterns in relationships.
- Depression, anxiety, loneliness, anger, and exhaustion.
- Trauma and experiences that remain difficult to make sense of.
- Psychosis, unusual experiences, and questions about diagnosis or previous treatment.
- Alcohol, substances, and other ways of coping.
- Work, identity, belonging, meaning, and uncertainty about the future.
About me
Before becoming a therapist, I spent much of my twenties trying to build a life in New York around work, writing, art, and comedy. Over time, I realized that the work occupying most of my days needed to reflect what mattered to me. I began volunteering at Fountain House, and from there decided to pursue a career in mental health.
I bring a decade of community mental health experience and close collaboration with psychiatrists, including work on Intensive Mobile Treatment (IMT) teams, in shelters, in intensive outpatient programs, and in crisis settings. I enjoy working with people whose experiences are complex, difficult to name, or not easily accommodated by familiar treatment frameworks.
That work continues to shape my practice. I take psychological suffering seriously without assuming that a diagnosis tells us everything important about a person.
My approach is grounded in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking. I also have formal training in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and cognitive processing therapy (CPT). These are resources we can draw on—not a template you have to fit.
Practice details
157 East 86th StreetNew York, NY
Individual psychotherapy for adults, in person and virtually. Evening and weekend appointments are available.
Sessions are 60 minutes. My fee is $275, and sliding-scale arrangements are available.
You are welcome to get in touch to discuss what you’re looking for and whether working together might make sense.
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