Life is always a work in progress. For some people, everything just seems to fall into place. For others, even the most outwardly successful, life can begin to feel overwhelming, confusing, or quietly painful.

Sometimes we know exactly what’s wrong and need space to work through it. Sometimes, despite our best efforts, the sources of our distress remain obscured, present in our relationships, our moods, or in a persistent sense that something just doesn’t feel right.

No matter where you are in your life’s journey, it can be powerful to have a space where your full range of thoughts and feelings, including the intense or difficult ones, can be explored thoughtfully and without judgment.

My Approach:

I am a clinical psychologist offering psychoanalytic psychotherapy to teenagers and adults from all walks of life. Many of my patients are older adolescents, college students, and young adults who experience emotions intensely and want to better understand those feelings rather than feel controlled by them. Many of my patients are adults who feel stuck, are grappling with questions about identity, relationships, or purpose, and carry a persistent sense that something in their lives is not quite right. Sometimes it is hard to say exactly what the problem is, even if the pain is impossible to ignore.

Many are queer, trans, or questioning aspects of their identity. Many are creative, including artists, musicians, and writers. They are often deep thinkers who reflect carefully on their lives, but they are not emotionally detached. In fact, their emotional lives tend to feel vivid, complicated, and sometimes overwhelming.

A number of the people I work with have been in therapy before and found that it did not feel helpful. Some felt misunderstood. Others felt they were being advised, managed, or pushed toward solutions before their experience had been fully understood.

The young people and adults I see are often living under intense social and interpersonal pressure. They may feel in conflict with authority, family systems, or broader cultural expectations. Many carry a moral or existential tension between their internal sense of what feels true or right and the demands placed on them from the outside. Some worry that their anger, intensity, or dissatisfaction means there is something fundamentally wrong with them. Others are looking to make changes in their lives, to struggle less, and to understand who they are more fully, but worry that change is impossible.