I welcome children, teens, parents, families, couples, and individual adults to my practice. It takes strength and courage to make the decision to seek therapy for yourself, your family, or your child. I provide a safe space and relationship where you, your child, and/or family can work through patterns, processes, thoughts, feelings, or beliefs that may cause individual or relational problems or stress.

I believe that both my love of people of all ages and my passion for the arts particularly help me to listen deeply and think creatively with you. My work includes but is not limited to people experiencing anxiety, depression, PTSD, and/or relationship, parenting and identity challenges. I also provide services to health care professionals, students, dreamers, artists (including writers and musicians), and/or those living with disability and/or chronic illness.

As an active member of Mind the Gap (MTG), a consortium of gender affirming care therapists in community partnership with  UCSF’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center, I am committed to providing gender affirmative services to transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive children, youth, and their families. I see patients in my office in Berkeley and also online via video.

I am deeply grateful to my patients, colleagues, supervisors, and staff at The Psychotherapy Institute where I completed a psychodynamically oriented training program. I am indebted to my brilliant and kind supervisors there, Barbara Cohen, PsyD, MFT (primarily) and Dori Dubin, PsyD. For wise and thoughtful ongoing consultation at Still Waters Psychotherapy, I want to thank Michelle Jurkiewicz, PsyD. I also provide EMDR, and completed the EMDRIA Basic Training in EMDR Therapy at the Sonoma Psychotherapy Training Institute with Dr. Andrew Leeds, PhD.

Prior to earning an M.A. in Counseling Psychology at The Wright Institute, I studied at Northwestern University (B.A. in English Literature), and Columbia University in the City of New York (M.F.A. in Writing Poetry), and had careers in publishing, health, and education.

To learn more, I invite you to explore this website or visit my page on Psychology Today .