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About My Clients
The people I work best with are outwardly functioning well but carrying inward tension — anxiety, irritability, perfectionism, or a quiet sense that something has not been worked through. They have usually been managing on their own for a while. What they want is not quick relief, but a steadier way of being with themselves: understanding that reaches beneath symptoms, and change that comes from staying with experience rather than pushing past it.
My Background and Approach
Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Massachusetts since 2009. My work has spanned private practice and community mental health, and for years I have also supervised and trained other clinicians. What that experience changes is not so much what I know as how I listen. Time with people in real difficulty teaches a kind of attention that does not rush to fix. My training is in mindfulness-based approaches and ACT, and Taoist philosophy informs how I think about the work. In session this looks like slowing down, noticing what is actually present, and trusting that long-standing patterns can loosen when met with curiosity rather than pressure to change. I came to this work from filmmaking. What drew me there is what holds me here — being close to the real, unedited experience of being human.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Three voices have shaped how I think about this work: Fred Rogers, Carl Rogers, and George Carlin. The first two for what they understood about meeting people with steady, unconditional regard. The third for refusing to look away from what is uncomfortable or absurd about being human. I try to hold both — the warmth and the honesty. Taoist and Zen philosophy run through how I see things. Not as belief systems, but as ways of paying attention. The idea that things shift on their own when we stop forcing them. That clarity comes from stillness, not effort. That what looks like a problem is often just a pattern asking to be understood. My path into therapy started with film. I wanted to tell stories about how people actually live. Then in 2004 I spent a year on a suicide hotline, and what I had been trying to do as a filmmaker became something else. I did not want to tell those stories anymore. I wanted to be present for the people living them. That is still what I am here for.