I offer psychotherapy for individuals seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and their lives.

Many people come to therapy with a sense that something is not quite right. They may notice repeated patterns in relationships, persistent feelings of anxiety or depression, or a more diffuse sense of dissatisfaction or disconnection. These experiences are often not random. Over time, they begin to reveal underlying patterns in how we relate to ourselves and others.

Psychotherapy provides a space to examine these patterns carefully and in-depth. Rather than focusing only on symptom relief or short-term solutions, our work is oriented toward understanding the meanings and histories that shape your experience. This process often unfolds gradually, through sustained attention to thoughts, feelings, past experiences, as well as to the therapeutic relationship itself.

My approach is informed by psychoanalytic and existential traditions. I am interested in how earlier experiences, often outside of conscious awareness, continue to influence present life. These experiences often cohere around such domains as intimacy, identity, and desire.

I have extensive experience working with LGBTQ+ individuals, and many of the people I work with are engaged with questions of identity, desire, and belonging. I approach these concerns as integral to the person’s broader psychological life, rather than as isolated issues, and aim to create a space in which they can be explored with openness, depth and an affirmation of individual autonomy and self-determination.

I offer sessions in person in the New Haven area and in NYC via secure telehealth. I am authorized to provide telehealth services in multiple states through PSYPACT, which allows for continuity of care across locations.

Many of the individuals I work with maintain demanding professional or academic schedules, relocate over time, or travel frequently. Telehealth makes it possible to sustain ongoing work under these conditions, while preserving the consistency that meaningful psychotherapy requires.

Sessions are typically held on a weekly basis.

I practice psychoanalysis as a way of taking suffering seriously: not as a malfunction to be corrected, but as something that means.

My work belongs to a dissident lineage within psychoanalysis, made up of clinicians who refused to treat the consulting room as a place for adjusting people to the world as it is. R. D. Laing insisted that what gets called madness can be an intelligible response to an unlivable situation. Wilhelm Reich and Félix Guattari saw that the forces shaping our inner lives, including family, work, institutions, and desire itself, are never only private. I share their conviction that therapy, at its best, is less about normalization than about freedom.

In practice, I draw on several traditions at once. From psychoanalysis, including Freud, Klein, Winnicott, and Lacan, I take the discipline of listening for what is said without being meant, and what is meant without being said. From existential philosophy I take the recognition that anxiety, guilt, and despair are not only symptoms. They are also encounters with the actual conditions of being human: finitude, freedom, responsibility, and our need for others. From non-dual schools of Eastern Thought such as Zen I take an attention to the self as something less solid than we assume, and to the relief that can come from loosening our grip on it.

In the room, this is simpler than it sounds. We talk. I listen closely, and I don’t hide behind technique. I won’t hand you a diagnosis to live inside or a protocol to complete. What I offer is a relationship in which you can begin to hear yourself differently. You can notice the stories you’ve been told about who you are, and find out which of them you actually want to keep.

People come to me anxious, stuck, grieving, at a crossroads, or simply sensing that the life they’re living isn’t quite their own. If something here resonates, I’d be glad to hear from you.

Many of the people I see are navigating:

• recurring difficulties in relationships

• questions about identity or direction

• persistent feelings of anxiety, depression, or dissatisfaction

• a sense of being constrained by patterns that are not fully understood

I also work with students, professionals, and individuals in periods of transition, including those moving between cities or phases of life.

This work tends to be most meaningful for those who are willing to engage in a sustained process of reflection, rather than seeking immediate or purely solution-focused outcomes.

I am a licensed psychologist with doctoral training in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I completed my doctoral training at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. My work is informed by a longstanding interest in the relationship between psychology and philosophy, which I began exploring during earlier graduate study at Union Theological Seminary, where I engaged with Jungian thought, Non-Dual schools of thought such as Zen, and queer theory.

As an adult, I encountered the work of R. D. Laing, whose writing had a lasting influence on my approach. Laing emphasized understanding psychological suffering within the context of a person’s relationships, history, and social environment, rather than reducing it to isolated symptoms. He advocated for a form of therapeutic engagement that is non-judgmental and oriented toward encountering the individual as a whole person. In 2026, I completed by training in existential psychoanalysis at The New School of Existential Psychoanalysis, a training program dedicated to Laing’s legacy and approach.

This perspective continues to shape my work. I aim to create a space in which thoughts, feelings, and experiences can be explored in depth, with attention to how patterns of relationship, identity, and desire develop over time. The therapeutic relationship itself often becomes an important space in which these patterns can be observed and understood. Questions of identity, desire, and belonging are central to much of my work. This work typically unfolds over time, through regular meetings and sustained attention to experience as it develops. Finally, as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I am extensively involved in work with, as well as advocacy for, my community.

Education:

Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University

M.A., Psychiatry and Religion, Union Theological Seminary

Postgraduate Training:

Certificate in Existential Psychoanalysis, The New School for Existential Psychoanalysis

Licensure:

Licensed Psychologist: New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, California