Services
- Individual
About My Clients
My clients are thoughtful, capable adults who feel stuck in painful relationship patterns, overwhelming self-criticism, or a quiet sense that something isn't working the way it should. Many are creative professionals — writers, designers, artists, entrepreneurs — who are very good at their lives on paper and privately aware that something is missing. They feel things deeply, notice what others miss, and are ready for work that actually goes somewhere.
My Background and Approach
I use depth oriented psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapy to explore the patterns, relationships, and experiences shaping your inner life. Our work focuses on developing greater self understanding and noticing how these patterns show up in the present. Over time, this understanding opens up new ways of relating to yourself and others. I have been doing this work for 14 years and hold an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from George Washington University and a Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. I am warm, direct, and genuinely curious about every person I work with. I offer telehealth sessions for adults in Chicago and throughout Illinois. $225 per session. Free 15 minute consultation.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe therapy works best when it's honest, curious, and alive. I've been in therapy my entire career and will be for the rest of my life. It's changed the way I move through the world and given me a curiosity about myself and others that I bring into every session. I think of the therapy room as a field. Two people in it together, using the relationship itself to reach toward something deeper. The past matters, but only because it shows up here, now, in the patterns you're living today. This work is alive. It moves. I'm drawn to Thomas Ogden's ideas about the analytic third and I believe something is created in the space between therapist and patient that belongs to neither of us alone. I don't come to this work from the outside looking in.