About

This is a small, independent practice — not affiliated with any platform, network, or outside investor. There's no algorithm matching you to a provider and no managed-care logic shaping what we work on or how long we work on it. Notes are kept on paper. Treatment decisions are made between us, not by a third party. For many people, this matters.

I began my clinical internships in 2005 and have been licensed to practice since 2007. That's over 20 years working with what breaks people down, and how they continue on—bringing deep experience to the work I do with my clients. My clinical background has spanned hospital systems, outpatient clinics, community mental health, and private practice. That range matters less as a list of settings and more for what it's given me: experience with cases where medical, psychological, and social factors are all tangled together at once, and the judgment to know when something needs to be addressed alongside therapy rather than instead of it.

In addition to private practice, I've been based at Mass General Brigham for over a decade — providing direct clinical care, supervised graduate social work students, and participating in a hospital-based advisory group on menopause and midlife care. That hospital grounding keeps me current with the medical side of mental health, and it's shaped a particular interest in the midlife transitions that often get treated as purely hormonal or purely psychological, when they're rarely just one or the other.

I earned my MSW at Smith College School of Social Work, then completed two post-graduate psychoanalytic trainings at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute — training that taught me to identify the undercurrents people feel at the surface but can't quite place: the pull of something old that leaves them confused to find themselves still caught by it, here and now. From there, my training kept widening. Cognitive behavioral therapy runs underneath most of what I do: the core beliefs CBT identifies don't stay contained to one method — they surface in any intervention — so tracking them is part of how I work regardless of which approach is in front. I've also trained in EMDR for processing trauma the talking-through method doesn't always reach, Internal Family Systems for working with the conflicting parts of yourself rather than around them, and mindfulness-based psychotherapy work through training at the Osher Center and the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. These are skills for building the capacity to stay present with difficult material instead of avoiding it. I draw on whichever of these fits the person in front of me, and that shifts as they do.

Before any of that, I earned a BA in cultural anthropology. Anthropologists are trained to observe with openness — to watch how people construct meaning without assuming there's only one way to do it. That training has never left how I listen, and it's why I don't assume one clinical framework fits everyone.

If this sounds like the right fit, I'd be glad to hear from you — use the contact button below to get in touch.