I see therapy as a way to help people navigate emotional pain and struggles, understand themselves better, and grow personally. It’s also a way to improve relationships with others and the world around us. In my approach, I focus on working together collaboratively and understanding each person in the context of their personality, family, history, culture, society, and daily life.

Depending on a person’s specific needs, therapy can focus on increasing self-awareness and insight, changing behaviors, building more fulfilling relationships, dealing with distressing thoughts and feelings, solving problems, and learning new skills to build paths forward.

I have completed training as a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with experience helping people of various ages and backgrounds with issues such as trauma, depression, anxiety, unstable moods, grief, relationship problems, personality challenges, and difficult behaviors.

Education & Training

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD), Pacific University

Board Certified in Psychoanalysis, The American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis, American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP)

Certificate in Theory and Practice of Psychoanalysis (4-year Psychoanalytic Training program, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (ICP), Los Angeles)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Kaiser Permanente, NW Division

Doctoral Internship, New York City Health + Hospitals: Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NYC)

Fellowship in Psychoanalysis, Institute for Psychoanalytic Education/NYU School of Medicine