Specialties
"What kind of therapist do I need?"
If you are Googling phrases like “Should I see a therapist quiz” or “How to find the right therapist quiz,” then you are already asking the right questions.
Good mental health care happens when the most suitable clinician applies their unique approach to your concerns. To answer “What type of therapist should I see?” it can help to reflect on which symptoms or struggles may be getting in your way. This isn’t required, but it can be useful. Ultimately, a skilled clinician will help you put words to what hurts.
This AI assessment may give you a sense of whether a mental health concern is present and whether therapy could be beneficial. It may also highlight something a previous clinician overlooked, or simply help you articulate your distress more clearly.
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Beyond assessments, remember to also assess the clinician. Scheduling a consultation is a great first step. Nearly every patient feels some ambivalence about whether to begin therapy—and with whom—so know that you are in good company.
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As you engage with this assessment, notice any thoughts, feelings, or sensations that arise. What arises in the moment may demonstrate what is disturbing you and why you are considering therapy. While diagnosis can provide a clinical description of symptoms, it is not the ultimate goal, nor can it fully capture your experience. Reflection on the process itself is often more valuable in fostering meaningful psychological change.
"So can you help me?"
I see you as a whole person, not a cluster of diagnoses or symptoms. I do my best to “specialize” in therapy tailored to you and your soul. Theoretically speaking, I align with psychodynamic and psychoanalytic modalities which affirm why difficulties persist despite one's best, conscious efforts to get better.
I do not give advice or a checklist of strategies. If a to-do list solved this then you would have already figured it out. Rather, I view psychological states as expressions of what lies within the psyche and soma. Gently we allow memories, dreams, reverie, and the unknown to voice themselves upon this theater. If this sounds technical, unfamiliar, mysterious or even uncomfortable, I want to hear about it in session.
Knowing this, I have extensive training in navigating the following experiences:
Depression and Anxiety
Trauma
Early Childhood, Attachment, Loss
Sex and Sexuality
Personality
LGBTQIA
Money
Cross-Cultural and Racial Experience
Play and Creative Expression
Motivations and Defense Mechanisms
Dream Analysis
Medical Anthropology and Relationship to Psychiatric Treatment
Psychedelics (Integration, Ayahuasca, Psychosis, Magic, Cult and Religious Dynamics)
Modernity (Anthropocene, Capitalism, Internet, Artificial Intelligence)
Complex Illness, Disability, Undiagnosed Physiological Symptoms, Mind-Body Interplay
The Unsaid and Unknown
I attend to how your environments—cultures, identities, lands, heritage, and histories—shape your relationships with yourself, with me as your therapist, and with your experience of suffering and healing.
"I don't know what to do."
We won't know until we find out, together. Send me a message.