Psychotherapy & psychoanalysis
for adolescents, adults and couples

Therapy to explore the deeper patterns that shape how you think, feel and relate to others

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About Me

I am a licensed clinical social worker with a doctorate in psychoanalysis. With over 30 years of experience, I specialize in treating adolescents, adults, and couples. My clinical focus includes anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. I have extensive experience working with university students and young adults, helping them navigate academic, relational, and emotional challenges.

In addition to my clinical practice, I am a senior faculty member at the Psychoanalytic Center of California, where I teach candidates and psychoanalytic psychotherapy students who are interested in gaining more knowledge about Psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

My Approach

What isn’t conscious still shapes you.

My work focuses on bringing underlying, often unconscious dynamics into greater awareness, so you can gain greater insight into your behavior and emotional life, not just relief from its symptoms. This process transforms patterns that may once have felt destructive into opportunities for growth, understanding, and more fulfilling connections with others.

While my work centers on the unconscious, it is not detached from your daily life. I remain responsive and attuned to your specific needs, goals, and circumstances.

Services

  • Adolescence is a period of significant psychological change, when patterns of identity, relationship, and self-regulation are actively being formed. I work with adolescents to help them understand what's driving their emotions and behavior, rather than simply managing symptoms, to build the kind of self-awareness that supports them well beyond the teenage years.

  • Working with university students and young adults is a particular focus of my practice. The transition into early adulthood brings academic pressure, shifting relationships, and questions of identity that often surface underlying emotional patterns for the first time. I help this population make sense of these challenges with an approach suited to where they are.

  • Many of the patterns that most affect our lives operate outside conscious awareness. In individual work, we explore the underlying dynamics behind anxiety, depression, trauma, and difficult life transitions, bringing them into focus so they can be understood, rather than simply managed. This work is particularly suited to those who want more than symptom relief, those who want to achieve a deeper understanding of why they feel and behave as they do.

  • The patterns that create conflict or distance in a relationship are often rooted in dynamics neither partner fully sees. Working from a psychoanalytic perspective, I help couples recognize these underlying patterns, including old expectations, unspoken fears, and ways of relating that were learned long before the relationship began, so they can build a more honest connection.