My practice
Over time, therapy helps people make profound changes in their lives, enabling them to heal from painful pasts and experience themselves in the present as more vital and alive. As a therapist, I offer my patients a place to explore their inner worlds, their challenges, and their relationships to others. Together, we examine the forces, internal and external, that cut you off from a fuller awareness of your desires, feelings, and realities. It is through knowing and addressing these forces that we expand your ability to experience yourself, connect to others, and act to improve your life.
A safe and attentive relationship between patient and therapist enables therapeutic transformation. I work to listen closely during sessions, attending to your need to speak your mind, to be heard and understood. At the same time, I remain attuned to what may feel unsayable and what is contributing to confusion and stress. This process of articulating yourself will help to integrate the diverse strands of your lived experience, offering greater clarity about the dynamics shaping your present ways of relating to the world.
Starting Therapy
Therapy is a big investment of time and energy. A deliberate engagement process allows us both to be sure that we are ready to commit to doing this important wok together.
Initial phone consultation - We’ll briefly discuss what brings you to therapy, address any questions you have for me, and discuss logistics.
Three initial sessions - If we decide to go forward, we will have three initial sessions. I spend these sessions getting to know you and what you are struggling with, in order to determine if I can be helpful to you. These sessions will give you the time to: fully feel out what it is like to be in therapy with me; assess if you feel safe and comfortable speaking your mind in my company; and see if I conceptualize the challenges you’re facing in a way that resonates with your experience.
After three sessions - We will discuss whether we are a good fit and if we will go forward in therapy or if we need to help you identify other therapists who may be a better fit.
Continuing Therapy
I have found long term work with patients, with treatments that last at least six months, works best for achieving therapeutic outcomes. My minimum frequency with patients is one session a week, with many patients opting for two sessions a week. Either weekly or twice-weekly meetings allow us to develop a rhythm where the material we’re working on stays in our minds and close at hand in the world. I find these rhythms and lengths of treatment produce the best outcomes and offer healing, not simply behavioral fixes.
Fees & Insurance
The fee for therapy is something that I agree on with each patient. On my end, it is important to me that I be able to offer psychotherapy to a range of individuals while still being able to sustain myself. I ask all my patients to think about a fee for weekly or twice weekly therapy that is both possible and meaningful for them in an ongoing, often years-long process. When patients benefit from structural positions that create unearned advantages like intergenerational wealth, property ownership, and low levels of student debt, I ask that they consider these as factors in deciding what feels doable—a fee that we will decide together during the end of our first session. This allows me to meet others who are negatively impacted by structural forces in ranges that are possible for them.
For patients looking to use insurance, I am an in-network provider for Aetna. For other insurances, a portion of my fee may be covered by out of network benefits. If this is something you are interested in, the first step is to contact your insurance provider and ask about out of network benefits for psychotherapy. I offer superbill receipts for submission to insurance companies, and am willing to offer other support as needed to help patients fully use their benefits.
About Me
I have experience helping people who are navigating life transitions, struggling with overwhelming feelings, living with anxiety and depression, and seeking deeper understandings of behaviors that are no longer working for them. I welcome people who are making sense of intersecting and marginalized identities, and I work to practice in ways that are antiracist, anti-oppressive, and non-pathologizing. I try not to forward normative expectations of success and I am affirming of diverse sexualities, gender identifications, kink practices, and ways of being in relationship with others.
I went to graduate school at the Smith College School for Social Work, a psychotherapy oriented social work program in western Massachusetts. After I graduated, I did a two year, post-graduate clinical training fellowship at Swarthmore College’s Counseling and Psychological Services. Before starting my private practice, I worked and supervised clinicians at Walnut Psychotherapy Center. In addition to clinical work, I have done research, taught, and published on the interplay of biomedical technologies, social media, and desire in queer life. In this scholarship, as well as my clinical practice, I think using frameworks from psychoanalysis and queer theory. I am currently studying to become a psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York.
I offer both virtual and in person sessions, with the in person sessions occurring at my office on the corner of 31st St and 5th Avenue in New York.
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