Professional Background/About

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 worked with urban youth designing and teaching college courses for high schoolers in a college preparatory program. Through conversations with students, I began to wonder about how traumatogenic environments — the format in which material was presented, as well as who was (and was not) included in the curriculum and represented — 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, including work with families, children and adults. 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 before starting a private practice. I am a graduate analyst of 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 working with adults.