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About My Clients
My clients are creative, intelligent, but often feel like they have lost control of their lives somewhere along the way. It is easy to get stuck in patterns that feel right but that create the same kind of painful life: falling into the same roles in your relationships, getting into the same arguments, working the same job, feeling that same isolation, that same anxiety... I help to decalcify those patterns and build a life that feels authentic, fulfilling, and yours.
My Background and Approach
I know that psychotherapy looks and feels different for everyone and for that reason I have trained widely in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), and psychodynamic psychotherapy. As well, during my PhD in philosophy, I examined the role of shame as an obstacle to change and existentialist approaches to understanding the self and interpersonal relationships which continues to inform my clinical practice. Integrating evidence-based psychotherapeutic treatments with a rigorous philosophical study of how we become who we are provides a framework for therapy where we can focus on how you are feeling today without losing sight of your broader goals, what you want your life to look like, and who you want to be.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
As a clinician with a doctoral degree in philosophy, I am deeply interested in how we make sense of ourselves and engage with the world around us. During my doctoral work, my research focused on the ways that social norms and expectations can be limiting, subtly shaping the person we become and what we feel we can achieve. My clinical work as a psychotherapist has echoed this strongly: many people feel constrained in subtle ways, stuck in patterns of thinking and feeling that feel familiar, but cause them pain. I believe that psychotherapy can be a corrective to that, having a profound impact on patients’ abilities to live full, agentic lives.