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About My Clients
I've found that people come to therapy knowing more about their own lives than they have been allowed to trust. Many have been through several courses of treatment that stopped at symptom relief. I work with highly sensitive, perfectionistic adults defending a shame they learned to regard as law or burdened by a rage that was never their own. Some overfunctioned to survive what they could not control; others were failed, refused, or discarded by the institutions they passed through.
My Background and Approach
I practice psychodynamically and over a long horizon, without a protocol or a set agenda. Most people who come to me were injured inside a relationship, so repair happens in one, too. That means staying with what we don't yet understand, together finding language for experiences that have remained unspeakable. I interned at the Philadelphia Consultation Center and trained in community mental health with post-hospitalization patients and severe developmental histories. I completed a two-year fellowship in psychoanalytic study at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. Complex trauma, dissociation, self-harm, and presentations described as borderline remain central to my practice.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe the capacity to tolerate doubt is worth more than being handed a certainty about what is wrong with a person. People often fear that therapy means endlessly deconstructing the past. My interest is in what gives way under pressure, and in what a person can build that cannot be revoked. More often, I encounter something closer to a condition someone grew up inside rather than an event to be processed. The condition takes shape early and becomes a way of being in the world. I aim to provide a space that disrupts unspoken rules, encourages improvisation, and lets people move from endurance to possibility. I see therapy as a refuge, so more of life becomes possible outside it.