The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single compassionate step toward yourself.
Welcome
From Overwhelmed
to Empowered
For more than three decades, I have worked with individuals, couples, and families navigating grief, longing, identity, creative impasse, and the quiet ache of emotional repetition.
I am a licensed psychotherapist and psychoanalyst whose work is grounded in British Object Relations — a depth-oriented framework that explores how early relationships and unconscious patterns shape the way we love, struggle, and make meaning of our lives.
This is thoughtful, in-depth therapy for those seeking more than symptom relief. My approach is for those ready to understand the deeper architecture of their emotional world.
My Background
Witnessing Transformation Fuels My Purpose
I earned my Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from New York University and completed my Doctorate in Psychoanalysis at the Psychoanalytic Center of California, where I also served as Senior Faculty teaching post-graduate and doctoral candidates. I currently also am a supervising instructor conducting group supervision for therapists in training at the Valley Counseling Community Center.
My clinical training began in New York hospitals and residential treatment centers, working with adolescents, young adults, and families in acute psychiatric settings. After relocating to Los Angeles in 1989, I established my private practice and began teaching group dynamics at the graduate level.
Over the years, my work has expanded to include:
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Trauma support at the Rape Treatment Center in Santa Monica
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Perinatal and postpartum guidance
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Natural childbirth education as a Certified Bradley Method Instructor
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Leadership and coaching training
These diverse experiences inform a steady, grounded clinical presence that is attuned to both crisis and complexity. My commitment is to help those speak what feels unspeakable and find meaning in uncertainty.
My Practice
Therapy here is not formulaic.
It's a collaboration rooted in curiosity, patience, and emotional rigor.
I work with adults and teens seeking deep lasting change, couples and parents longing for greater fulfillment and joy,
and therapists wishing to expand their clinical presence and understanding. In our work together, I listen for what arrives softly or remains just out of view — the tangled, painful, or half-formed aspects of experience that often hold the greatest meaning.
We reflect on your history, sit carefully with your present, and make space for a future shaped by insight rather than repetition.
I create a safe space where you can explore your thoughts and feelings without judgment. True change begins when you feel genuinely heard and understood.
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We focus on lasting transformation, not quick fixes. Together we'll build new habits, strengthen resilience, and create a foundation for long-term well-being.
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Find harmony in your life by prioritizing 'you' and reinforcing a sturdy scaffolding that is your sense of self, through free association, dream work, and learning to hear yourself and be heard in new and inspiring ways.
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It is a joy to be hidden,
and disaster not to be found.
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Areas Of Focus
Where I Can Support You
Anxiety & Stress Management
Learn to quiet the inner critic and manage overwhelming thoughts. Through evidence-based techniques, we'll reduce anxiety's grip on your life and help you cultivate calm, even in chaos.
Relationship & Communication
Whether you’re navigating conflict, longing for closeness, or feeling isolated and distant from each other, we go beyond technique to discover your lost hopes and dreams or reinvent them altogether. The foundation of lasting love: becoming best friends and lovers.
Identity & Purpose Exploration
You feel you’ve lost your way or have never really identified or lived by your internal compass. You always have a sense that there could or should be more. We shift the doing and judging of the 21st century fast-paced get-it-done-techno-world, to a space of being, dreaming and listening until your sturdiness and ‘self' emerge with joy, freedom, and authenticity.
Family Guidance
You swore you’d never parent like your parents or you’d be the coolest parent ever, and it just isn’t going the way you’d hoped. You are worried and sad and/or don’t know how to help and “teach your children well”. Let’s understand you and your child’d development better and seek to provide what you all need to have love be the foundational super-power that serves as your north-star.
My Philosophy
Psychoanalysis offers a space to listen beyond the noise, to engage what is unspoken, and to reimagine ones self in dialogue with the unconscious.
Psychoanalysis, or psychoanalytic therapy, offer a space to listen beyond the noise, to engage what is unspoken, and to reimagine oneself in dialogue with the unconscious.
This understanding guides my work. Whatever you carry, wherever your story has unfolded, therapy offers a space to return to yourself with curiosity and begin the work of becoming more fully known.
