I am a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist with a background in community and college mental health, as well as a past life in higher education.
Prior to entering the mental health field, I designed and taught college courses for high schoolers in a college preparatory program. Through conversations with students, I began to wonder about how traumatogenic environments (such as the format in which material was presented, as well as who was and was not represented in the curriculum) affect the process of teaching and learning. I became invested in destigmatizing conversations about the impact of academic environments on mental health and psychological well-being.
After graduating from Smith College SSW, I worked in a variety of community mental health, outpatient and college counseling settings. I completed additional post-graduate training at Harvard Medical School’s behavioral health fellowship at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Atrius Health, where I focused on integrative psychotherapy approaches in an ambulatory healthcare setting with children, adolescents and adults. I also completed fellowships in psychodynamic therapy, one at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy and another at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. I then spent some time working in university mental health counseling, where I saw undergraduates, graduate students and post-docs before starting a private practice. I completed candidacy in adult psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Although I currently only see adults, my previous experience working with children, families and adolescents across a variety of social locations informs a developmental lens that I bring to my work.
