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 behavioral work when I feel you are ready to implement tangible changes. My therapeutic philosophy is that you are going to implement changes when your perspective genuinely shifts. This is why collaborative talk therapy is my style, and why I don’t provide “tools” to my clients except occasionally.

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.

Yeah. Honestly, like, not even an issue in the slightest.

Here’s what’s important:
It’s honestly unethical to try to get you to change your political opinions or have you agree with my own and it’s also irrelevant.Now hold on- politics are incredibly relevant in the therapy space, but not in the way one would conventionally assume. I am going to spare you from that rant for needed brevity.

The therapy space should be able to hold positive emotions and negative emotions, comfort and discomfort. You might not believe it- but yes, I have clients all over the political spectrum.

You have a life story, and because of that life story- you arrived somehow politically to where you are today. That is interesting, and I’d like to learn about it.

If you want me to extrapolate more, most people hold states of “confusion” and “incongruency” about a lot of their views. That’s the stuff that’s interesting to discuss in therapy. I’m not going to tell you who to vote for and I won’t judge you if you vote, do not vote, etc. As a therapist, I think everyone deserves good therapy and that everyone struggles.

For the right client, provided it’s appropriate, I can be politically more apparent in the therapy session, and I’m not afraid to be.

And yeah, I do feel a strength of mine is working with people who feel they’re suffering due to the political state of the world. You might not even be suffering materially. Perhaps just emotionally from it.

My beliefs mean everyone should have universal and quality housing, healthcare, and healthy labor conditions at work. Everyone deserves to live a life in dignity. I want this even for those that disagree with me.

It does not bother me to work with people who personally disagree with my politics and it is not my job to get anyone to agree with me on my personal views.

- at the end of the day,

I am a therapist. My job is to help people understand their lives better and to help them live better, I’m devoted to that even if we disagree on how much someone should get taxed.

Insurance companies deny claims in some unknown frequency, and force me to suggest a diagnosis for you as soon as within one session. Also, they pay therapists horribly, and late. I can’t work to the best of my ability under those conditions.

Depending on your income and other factors, I can possibly lower my rate. Right now, all of my sliding scale spots that are below 100.00 are full- I can potentially flex rates. It’s important to remember that you are paying for quality therapy that fits your needs and that you are investing in yourself.

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’s a period of unpleasantness before improvement.

Most things are not immediately better ever. You should be skeptical of professionals that promise immediate relief and betterment in almost every industry.

Yes, I have a relational approach for most things- but I contextualize cases psychoanalytically. 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.

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 not because therapy isn’t working- but because it IS working. We do things consistently because they work!

My work is relational and therefore the quality of the work increases as the relationship deepens. People are complex.

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? …..?…..

Everyone is deserving of good therapy. I specialize in working with marginalized individuals but I also enjoy working with all individuals. Privileges can significantly lessen life adversity- but they do not exempt you from hardship or the cruelty of unwanted trauma. Therapy is for you as well!

I completely get why you may have exited that page with a weird feeling. And the interesting part is that I honestly had nothing to do with the fact that feeling may have arisen.

it’s just that discussing class privilege is not an easy thing to do, and it’s under discussed on purpose. That feeling has been created by complex and insidious sociopolitical conditions.

Class privilege (financial privilege) is purposefully neglected from conversations from therapy spaces.

I’m not saying you have not faced discrimination in the category of sex, race, gender, etc. I am saying that you can afford therapy on some level. That’s a privilege.

Part of my therapeutic work also includes reconciling with the ways we might carry privilege and marginalization when it’s relevant- many people have “guilt” over privileges- and in my opinion that is very unproductive.

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.

If I’ve succeeded in constructing this website the way I wanted to, you would have hopefully have naturally come to this conclusion anyway.