Have you been wanting to make meaningful changes in your life but feel hesitant to start therapy? I know how courageous making this move is, and provide a relaxed, supportive atmosphere as you explore your emotional life. I partner with you to identify your goals for personal growth. Together we create a safe space for you to clarify patterns of behavior and thinking that may be bogging you down. We can look at repeated sources of disappointment or dissatisfaction so that you can grow away from them and into a more vibrant relation to yourself, others, and the world.

"What we experience is not external reality but our interaction with it." Neils Bohr, Physicist.

"Adulting" can be an emotional rollercoaster – a time filled with career and academic highs, depressing lows, and outstretched uncertainty. The young clients I work with seek therapy for all the emotional turmoil life throws at you: pressures to succeed, anxiety, trouble sleeping, perfectionism, and rocky relationships. Others I see come to therapy with a broader wish to understand their own nature, to see themselves and timeworn habits more clearly. In each case, my goal is not to simply fix problems in your life, but rather to help you gain control when it seems like the world around you is spinning.

All of us struggle with barriers that inhibit our ability to expand in the world of work or relationships, experience vitality and creativity. These barriers are experienced as symptoms, for example: anxiety, depression, anger, dissociation, low mood and low self-esteem, negative thinking, interpersonal difficulties and self-defeating patterns. I have 20 years of clinical experience and a kind, patient and professional demeanor. With incisive, cogent exploration, support and some humor, I can help you come to better terms with and move beyond barriers.

My ideal clients -- and I have many --are individuals or people in various relationships who feel they are not achieving their maximum potential -- in life, career or relationships. . If I can help solve people or couples solve problems or find more satisfaction I have succeeded, and I often do

Please know that your health/mental health is my main concern. Dealing with the Corona Virus pandemic has been -and continues to be- very challenging for everyone. You might be feeling afraid, anxious, alone, isolated, confused, angry... in addition to all the other stressors that you may have in your life. I believe that I can help. I am very comfortable working with a range of issues/concerns/diagnoses. A significant aspect of my practice is my sensitivity to culture and diversity. I also enjoy working with young adults helping them to transition into adulthood.

We create personal narratives to make sense of our subjective experience of life. Embedded in our narrative, are the internalized images of ourselves that we draw on to explain our lives (e.g. unworthy, undesirable, shameful, superior, unappreciated etc.). In therapy we examine the images that so often lead us to make the unconscious choices that return us to the painfully familiar circumstances that have come to define our life. As we become aware of the ways in which our images have unwittingly influenced our choices, we will have the opportunity to make new choices that may better support living the life to which we aspire.

Seeking help can be a very overwhelming and humbling experience. But it is also a step toward the dignity and self-respect that come from facing, head on, your pain and suffering. Therapy is a lot like learning to hold your hand over a hot flame. Left to our own devices, we wince and turn away. This is why finding a good match, someone you can trust, is essential. And this is why I consider it a privilege to do this work.

I consider psychotherapy to be a project between two people in which the goal is to understand both conscious and unconscious sources of emotional pain and ultimately open a space in which to alleviate suffering. The result is a very singular relationship that encourages multiple readings of itself and of all the relationships that have come before it. Through an understanding of feelings, relationships, and a deepening of inner and outer dialogue, we can enter a process of healing which leads to the shedding of old and destructive patterns.

People have an inherent capacity for growth and healing, however, there are times when we may become stuck or stagnant. As a therapist, my role is to facilitate a person’s natural trend toward development, building upon strengths and resolving internal or external obstacles to living a healthy and fulfilling life. In my work, I aim to create a supportive and accepting environment, tailored to the needs of each client. Understanding that the individual is the expert of their experience, I will take my cues from you in terms of how we work through your specific difficulties together.

Choosing a therapist can be confusing and overwhelming, especially if you need to discuss issues related to sexuality or gender. I have a transparent, practical and easy-going style that is compassionate, culturally-attuned and helps my clients feel understood and at ease. The commitment to psychotherapy is challenging, vulnerable and courageous. It is not about aiming for perfection, but appreciating the ways in which you have continued to persist and fight for what you value and those you care about even in the face of all the messiness, conflict and struggle.

If you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning and looking for therapy, you've found the right place. I'm here to help and support you in a safe and welcoming environment. We'll work together to help you find the best way to live the successful and happy life you deserve.

I believe we all have the courage and determination to meet even tough life problems. My goal is to assist with meeting these problems through gaining insight into the problems and the factors that perpetuate them. I focus on developing a useful way of understanding vulnerabilities, and on observing and gaining a greater sense of unique attributes. I also focus on developing behavioral steps to foster understanding and a greater sense of strength. This process can be hard, but it can also be hopeful, creative and rewarding.

As a Clinical Psychologist with a background in athletics and fitness, I meet patients where they are, develop a strong working relationship, and identify strengths we can build off of all while maintaining cultural humility and awareness. Over the past six years, I have found this approach enables you and I to reduce emotional distress and improve self-esteem, decision making, and overall life satisfaction. Further, a holistic approach that includes all aspects of a patient’s identity allows for a more integrated, healthy and powerful sense of self that is better equipped to handle life’s stresses during and after therapy.

We are more mysterious to ourselves than we know. Rather than explore this mystery, however, we are conditioned to seek the quick fix -- diagnosis, medication, self-help books and worksheets -- in order to meet the grinding demand for maximum productivity. But ignorance of the unconscious not only compromises our creativity and potential, it also invariably results in significant pain. Our relationships suffer, our goals remain unattainable, we develop harmful habits, we may even experience depression, anger, anxiety, and despair. Quick fixes provide temporary symptom relief, but our deeper conflicts endure, and sometimes worsen.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist and I work to help people make changes in how they lead their lives and experience themselves. Trained in psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, and psychoanalytic theories, I help people address a range of issues, including depression, anxiety, personality disorders and relationship problems. My approach is collaborative, empathic, and supportive.

Welcome! I am an experienced psychotherapist, utilizing an integrative and multi-dimensional approach to help clients access their strengths and navigate the difficult moments life often presents. I incorporate concepts of CBT, DBT, psychodynamic and supportive psychotherapy in to my practice, allowing these ideas to provide a framework for our treatment together. Through a compassionate and empathic approach, I've received the opportunity to work with a large range of individuals in various outpatient settings.

My work has been with people dealing with problems including trauma, shame, history of abuse, out- of-control behaviors, anxiety and depression. My creative background informs my clinical work. I began acting professionally as a teenager, performed and recorded as singer and multi-instrumentalist, studied jazz improvisation and began teaching. I worked with people to find and express their unique voice. In some cases, problems emerged (some named above) that were preventing progress. This gave us the opportunity to identify them and implement solutions.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist practicing in Manhattan who specializes in adults and older adults who are experiencing stress, depression and/or anxiety. My style is nonjudgmental, empathic, and highly interactive, and I develop strong collaborative therapeutic relationships with my clients. French-speaking individuals are welcome as I grew up speaking French in Geneva, Switzerland. I provide individual psychotherapy for individuals who have issues such as relationship difficulties, challenges due to life transitions (career change, becoming a parent, retirement, becoming a caregiver, etc.), health conditions, adjusting to a new culture, grief, and facing infertility.

Are you feeling anxious, isolated, depressed? Are you having difficulty with relationships? Are you creatively blocked? Problems in living can be encountered despite accomplishment. I help you identify blocks in relationships, career, creativity. Life is full of unexpected shocks; therapy can be an auxiliary shock absorber.