I offer therapy in person and remotely. I have very limited in person availability, please inquire. I use a blend of relational and psychoanalytic therapy.

I occasionally incorporate pragmatic modalities (DBT, ERP) if I find it relevant to your treatment.

I prefer to treat clients analytically. Clients cease to use substances and cease obsessive behaviors through analytic approach. Emotional change drives behavioral change.

I don’t have a one size fits all approach, you are unique.

At this time, I only conduct 1:1 therapy (individual psychotherapy) and group therapy, I am not conducting family or couples counseling at this time.

My group rates are different than my individual rates.

I charge $250 for individual therapy. I can help you figure out if your insurance covers therapy. I will provide you a superbill and you will get some level of reimbursement. If you don’t have out of network benefits, I can potentially offer a sliding scale. Please inquire.

My clients meet with me once a week- and I have some clients that see me twice a week.

The short answer is yes.

Now for the longer answer:
Politics are incredibly relevant in the therapy space, to me this means offering accessibility to low income clients, seeing very diverse groups of clients, being politically and culturally informed or perhaps directing a client to housing resources. I am also happy to answer direct political questions by individuals who feel currently unsafe in our political environment and want to know I am an aligned provider. I am not opaque about my politics.

You don’t need to think or feel the same as me. I have no interest in getting a client to personally agree with me by any measure, nor do I have any interest in converting a client’s opinion to match my own. I believe in what I think should be the basics: I have the transparent opinion I believe in a person’s right to basic dignity, and it is no secret I believe in a person’s right to have dignified labor conditions, universal healthcare, and that I think everyone deserves housing. I am also anti-racist. I recognize that having these views may have a filtering effect on who works with me, but they also may not.

I see clients who have Blue Cross, Aetna, United and more- but I see them using their “out of network benefits”. We will work collaboratively to see if you have out of network benefits. You’ll get a superbill, and then be reimbursed by the insurance company.

If you don’t have out of network benefits, we will come up with a fair placement on the sliding scale.

I can’t say for sure. Some people immediately feel better because venting to someone might provide relief quickly.

But sometimes you will feel slightly worse before feeling better. You’re opening up about thoughts and maybe even memories that you’ve repressed or have not wanted to discuss. You’re becoming more open to reconciling with difficult aspects of yourself, your identity, your relationships.

An okay analogy:
You decide yourself that you want to be more physically fit and agile. You go to the gym. You recognize it’s hard to do a number of exercises and that you may not feel good in your body for X reasons. Overtime this feeling lessens, but at first the realization of your physical state was quite painful.

A less fitting analogy, but still works enough, I guess:
You buy a guitar. You can’t wait to shred like the guitarist in your favorite band. But you’re not shredding immediately. You start out playing twinkle twinkle little star. Actually, before that, you learn that your hands need to callus first- it even hurts to play the guitar.

There might be a period of unpleasantness before improvement. There might not be.

Yes, I have a relational approach for most things- but I contextualize cases psychoanalytically. I receive supervision and consultation psychodynamically and psychoanalytically- and read and contextualize cases analytically. I am psychoanalytically informed, in a few years I am attending a 4-6 year psychoanalytic training program and will offer analysis more formally.
Whether you’re struggling with borderline, bipolar, OCD, or ADHD- we’re probably going to look inward and at past events. No one struggles with anything in singularity.

First generation is defined as being the first person in your family to receive a bachelors degree or you’re currently in school and would be the first person to.

I am incredibly proud to be the first person in my family to receive a bachelors degree, and also a masters degree.

I recommend “know that you are worthy” by Dr. Adam Rodriguez, a first gen college grad and psychologist if you’d like to learn more.

I am a therapist that is comfortable talking about stigmatized things, which include sex. I think there is a knee jerk discomfort when it comes to discussing sex, and that is a total disservice to most clients.

We might also never discuss your sex life or dating, you might not be comfortable with that. I would hope that you see a therapist you are comfortable with and trust and can broach most topics with.

I also don’t talk about it unnecessarily. I also recognize some people are asexual or have non-traditional attitudes toward sex and sexuality.

I discuss sex with my clients. This does not involve physical or sexual contact between the client and therapist, and it does not involve a reciprocated romantic connection between client and therapist, that would be unethical.

That is entirely up to you, there’s no real number for that. My personal philosophy is that life is an existential experience that we’re trying to deeply understand always.

Most of my clients see me long term. I don’t obligate or persuade any of my clients to be in therapy. Many of my clients have seen me for over two years. We do things consistently because they work!

There is a strange misconception that I see on the internet that your therapist is trying to get you to pay forever and not make you truly better. ….. Can you think of services you have paid for consistently (like over 6 months) that do not work? …..?…..

Basically, my work is relational and therefore the quality of the work increases as the relationship deepens. People are complex. Clients continue to stay in therapy because the work is deepening, evolving and helping them.

With that being said, there might be a point that comes where you feel you’ve achieved your goals and no longer need therapy. My clients find that they often do achieve their goals and then set new ones. Therapy does not go on indefinitely and doesn’t need to, but relational work is deeper. I do not provide a brief model of therapy.

Class privilege is purposefully neglected from conversations from many spaces and of course, therapy spaces, which may explain the unknown reaction you’re having.

Your placement on the sliding scale does not eclipse the fact you may have faced discrimination in the category of sex, race, gender, religion etc.

Part of my therapeutic work also includes intersectionality, and therefore reconciling with the ways we might carry privilege and marginalization when it’s relevant.

I think that it takes anywhere from instantly to four sessions to determine if the therapist is a good fit for you. Sometimes the chemistry is instant- and sometimes- you sense it’s there, but it hasn’t actualized. You can discover chemistry, but you can’t force chemistry. If you have an inkling the chemistry between you and a therapist is possible, I encourage you to try a few sessions and perhaps that’ll be with me!

One thing about me is that I am incredibly devoted to your progress and extremely passionate about providing quality therapy. I voraciously learn and challenge myself for my clients on a daily basis.

I consider it my ethical responsibility.

I genuinely feel this is a personal strength of mine, and anyone who knows me deeply can absolutely attest to this trait.

I want you to know that I am passionate and opinionated about what I do. I want you to know I have opinions about what I think “good” therapy is.

Those who deeply know me would attest to me being honest in my approach. I would rather be a tiny bit polarizing and find clients who will genuinely benefit from my work than try to make myself seem like the perfect therapist for everyone with a blanket appeal. What good would that be for you?

Part of my therapeutic work includes helping people feel more confident and authentic, I don’t think I should be exempt from that kind of deep work.

If this resonates, let’s work together!