Therapists in Boston, MA

I provide psychotherapy to adults with a variety of issues including intimacy, work/study inhibitions and dealing with loss. I am an active, engaged therapist who believes warmth, curiosity and a non-judgmental stance are key to helping you to explore the nature of your problem and to collaboratively identify achievable goals. A careful review of emotional, medical and family history forms the basis of evaluating the scope of one's challenges and guides the best approach. Lasting change includes learning how past experience has shaped relationships, ways of managing stress, strengths and your capacity to confront current dilemmas.

***Not currently accepting new patients*** I am a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and former faculty member at Harvard Medical School, and have been in private practice in Harvard Square for 18 years. Most commonly, I work with individuals struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma and borderline personality disorder -- from those who are severely affected by these conditions to those in less distress.

I respect why people seek therapy. Work begins with the truth of their stated problem. People describe undesirable patterns in career/work and relationships. I help people connect current problems to deficits or traumas in early life, or situations that interrupted their own early development. I help people discover, talk about, and grieve these early situations. The therapeutic action is the exploration of the link between early situations and the current problem. I help people create new experiences of themselves in work, everyday stressful situations, and in love relationships. The outcome: freedom to create a satisfying life and future.