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 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 should help you put into words 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 what a previous clinician may have overlooked or 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 exemplify the very challenges 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 assessment process itself is often more valuable for 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.
I do my best to understand as many realms of life as I can, no matter how distinct or alternative.
Knowing this, I have extensive training in navigating the following experiences:
Depression and Anxiety
Trauma
Relationship Dysfunction
Early Childhood, Attachment, and Loss
Sex and Sexuality
LGBTQIA and Transgender as Healthy Expression
Personality
Sense of Self
Defense Mechanisms
Money
UHNW
Celebrity, Artists/Athletes
Creative Expression
Play & Humor
Primitive Drives
Dreams
Relationship to Psychiatry
Major Life Transitions
Love
Secrets
Shadow
Mortality
The Unsaid and Unknown
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A Few Topics of Interest:
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Affect
Affective learning, Facilitating access to feeling states and the unconscious
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Psychedelics
Integrating extraordinary experience, Spiritual with Rational Thought, Psychosis, Cult Dynamics
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Conceptualizing Healing
What does it mean to "heal" and how?
Etiology and "pathogenesis" of psychological injury and recovery, Bridging Biomedicine and The Unconscious, Molecular or other bases of memory and interpersonal transmission
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Thinking about Thinking
How do we know what we know and don't know?
Knowledge and Wisdom Acquisition, Methods of Understanding, Idea Formation, Curiosity
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Modernity
Anthropocene, Capitalism, Internet and Artificial Intelligence, Group Paradigm Shifts
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Physiological Symptoms
Mind-Body Interplay, Complex Illness, Over- or under-determining bases of somatic expressions
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Ethnicity
Immigration, Displacement, Belonging, Psychic Homelessness, Decolonization
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Contemporary Thinkers of Interest:
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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 beliefs about suffering and healing.
"I don't know what to do."
We won't know until we find out, together. Send me a message.