My approach to individual therapy is depth-oriented and anchored by a persistent curiosity about you and your inner world. I work to help my patients clarify conflicting feelings and uncover blindspots that may be maintaining their symptoms. We’ve all learned ways since very early on to adapt and avoid things that stir up deeply uncomfortable feelings, but this avoidance tends to sustain our suffering and impact our self-esteem over time.

While your therapy goals will be unique to you, a general aim of psychodynamic therapy is to help you understand the psychological roots of your behaviors today. Those roots tend to be deep, so I generally meet with people one to three times per week. Meeting more regularly allows for greater continuity and momentum which enables a deeper understanding and greater capacity for growth. After we meet during the initial sessions of therapy, we’ll discuss the cadence that would be most beneficial to you.

Couples psychotherapy is particularly useful for couples who find themselves unable to get unstuck on their own, repeating the same unhelpful patterns again and again. I believe that both partners maintain the current equilibrium of a relationship, so no one individual is to blame and each partner holds responsibility for their own actions.

As a couples therapist, I take a direct approach to increase your self-awareness as well as improve your understanding of what’s underneath your partner’s behavior. The general goal of my work with couples is to help partners communicate more constructively, build mutual respect, and foster greater emotional and sexual intimacy.

Group therapy can offer unique benefits that allow for meaningful shifts, including a more realistic self-esteem and better relationships. The small, safe group format can provide you with not only peer support and skill-building, but also a unique setting to get real-time feedback about how you are in relation to other people.

I’m currently offering two groups that are open for enrollment: One is a support group for new fathers ↗︎, and the other is an interpersonal process group ↗︎.

Please contact me to learn more about them or to set up an intake session.

I provide psychodynamic supervision to licensed therapists in DC, VA, MD, and other PsyPact states. Therapists seek me out because they are interested in deepening their work with their patients by honing their psychoanalytic case conceptualization and technique.