“In my early professional years I was asking the question: ‘How can I treat, or cure, or change this person?’ Now I would phrase the question in this way: ‘How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?’”
– Carl Rogers
“Don’t do that. I can’t guarantee success, but I can guarantee failure.”
– Charlotte Spiegelman
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
– Aristotle
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou
"Traumas can be defined as experiences that cause people to develop erroneous beliefs about themselves or the world which keep them from living to their full potential and causing them suffering."
– Laurel Parnell
“Life should be enjoyed up to its extent."
– Salman Akhtar
“To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial.”
– Bell Hooks
“You are never strong enough that you don’t need help.”
– Cesar Chavez
“We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body.”
– Bessel A. van der Kolk
“A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by ‘mere’ words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic.”
– Sigmund Freud
“With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.”
-Paul Farmer
“That’s when I feel most alive, when I’m helping people.”
-Paul Farmer
“Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.”
-Bell Hooks
“All too often (people) believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm’s way.”
-Bell Hooks
“I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”
-Frida Kahlo
“I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”
-Frida Kahlo
“Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.”
-Sue Johnson
“Unexpressed emotions will never die…”
Sigmund Freud
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”
-Anna Freud
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
-Khalil Gibran
“Traumatized people don't have memory, they have symptoms.”
-Bessel A. van der Kolk
“Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on—unchanged and immutable—as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past.”
-Bessel A. van der Kolk
“Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.”
-Sue Johnson
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
-Stephen Chbosky
I work as a psychotherapist to help end suffering in the patients I serve. With the lifting of psychological pain comes greater peace of mind, and with it, more ease in partaking of the activities and relationships that make life fulfilling and deeply connected with others. Located in the heart of Cambridge’s Central Square, I opened my doors in 2007, and have since worked with adults across the lifespan.
Services
I conduct psychotherapy with individual adults. My therapeutic orientation is psychoanalytic in nature and I practice talk therapy and EMDR.
Fees and Scheduling
My practice is currently full, and I am unable to welcome new patients. If you are interested in a consultation, adjunctive treatment, or supervision, please contact me so that we may discuss my availability.