About Me

I hold an MSW from Columbia University and am a licensed psychotherapist specializing in individual therapy with adults and adolescents.

I believe good therapy starts with a strong relationship. I work hard to really know my clients and understand how they experience themselves and the world around them. From there, we can get curious about what keeps showing up, what isn’t working anymore, and what might need to change. I want therapy to offer insight, but I also want that insight to translate into something tangible outside of the therapy room.

I absolutely love helping people connect with what matters most to them and find the courage to face what scares them. Sometimes that means doing something differently even when anxiety is telling you not to. Other times, it means learning to tolerate uncertainty, loosening your grip on something you’ve been trying desperately to control, or understanding why a particular pattern has been so hard to change. My role is to help you get unstuck without losing sight of who you are or what you care about.

Stress and anxiety have a way of taking up more and more space in a person’s life. They can change how you see yourself, interfere with relationships, and make everyday decisions feel much more complicated than they need to be. I use evidence-based treatment to help clients change their relationship with anxiety, so they can spend less time responding to fear and more time actively participating in their lives.

My training is primarily in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). I also draw heavily from psychodynamic theory. Understanding where a pattern comes from can be incredibly valuable; so can recognizing when understanding it isn’t enough, and it’s time to practice something different.

My approach to therapy reflects both. We might spend a session making sense of an old pattern and the next actively challenging it. I incorporate mindfulness, self-compassion, and somatic work when they’re useful, particularly when insight alone isn’t reaching what someone is experiencing. Ultimately, I want my clients to leave therapy knowing themselves better, trusting themselves more, and feeling more capable of living the life they actually want to live.

What I Treat

Anxiety and OCD Spectrum Disorders: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Specific Phobias (needles, blood, vomit), Panic Disorders, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety, Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors: Skin Picking (Dermatillomania), Hair Pulling (Trichotillomania)

Life Challenges: Relationship Challenges, Emerging Adulthood and Life Transitions 

Brain Based/Neurodevelopmental Disorders: ADHD

LGBTQ+ Identity: I have extensive experience working with LGBTQ+ clients and their families, both through my work at the Ali Forney Center and in private practice. This work goes far beyond identity or coming out. I believe gender and sexuality affect how people understand themselves, relate to others, and move through a society that still often treats heterosexuality and traditional gender roles as the default. As a lesbian, I bring both clinical experience and personal understanding to this work.