About Me

I've always been fascinated by what it means to be human. Why we do the things we do. Why we keep doing some of those things even when we know perfectly well they aren't working. How we make sense of our lives, our relationships, and ourselves. And what happens when life turns out to be very different from what we expected.

Which, as it turns out, is rather often.

I'm a psychotherapist because I find people endlessly interesting. Not as puzzles to solve or problems to fix, but as complicated, contradictory, creative beings doing their best to navigate an existence for which none of us received an instruction manual.

I'm particularly drawn to the big questions. Who am I? How did I become this person? What matters to me? What do I do when the life I thought I was living changes? How do I live with uncertainty, loss, and the knowledge that so much of being alive is beyond my control?

You know. The light stuff.

My approach to psychotherapy is rooted in relational psychodynamic and existential-humanistic traditions. (Read more about My Approach.) I'm interested in how our histories shape us, how our relationships influence our experience of ourselves, and how we sometimes become caught in familiar ways of being that no longer serve us.

But I'm equally interested in what happens right here, right now, between people willing to be curious together. I believe the therapeutic relationship offers something quite remarkable: an opportunity to notice ourselves in ways we might not otherwise, to encounter parts of our experience we've learned to avoid, and to discover possibilities we couldn't previously imagine.

I take this work seriously. I don't think that means we always have to take ourselves seriously.

There is room in therapy for sorrow, anger, confusion, fear, delight, absurdity, and laughter. Sometimes all in the same session. Human beings are wonderfully inconsistent that way.

I don't come to this work believing I have the answers to how you should live your life. I bring curiosity, attention, compassion, a willingness to ask difficult questions, and a genuine interest in discovering what we might come to understand together.

Because for all my fascination with the big questions, what matters most to me isn't arriving at some definitive answer about the human condition.

It's the particular, unrepeatable experience of being you.

And what might become possible when we get curious about that.