I am a psychotherapist in private practice. 

I have worked with patients presenting with a wide range of sufferings and goals for treatment.  During my early years of training tough, I had the profound honor of working with a number of folks that had intense histories of trauma.  Those patients and the treatments that arose from our work together, informed my clinical interests and have directed the trajectory of my professional life since.  I specialize in the treatment of trauma and in helping to clear the symptoms that arise out of having been abused, neglected, brokenhearted, damaged through religious indoctrination or so-called conversion therapy, or injured through medical intervention, warfare, racism, or accident.

In addition to my clinical practice, I serve as a Scientific Member of the Institutional Review Board at the Fenway Institute, I supervise at the Psychotherapy Institute of Back Bay, and serve on the NASW Private Practice Specialty Committee.

I am an alumnus of the Program for Psychotherapy at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a former Fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a practitioner of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing). At Harvard Medical School, I served as a Research Associate, where I was part of a team investigating the efficacy of long-term psychodynamic treatments.

Prior to entering the mental health field, I worked in higher education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School, where I was an administrator, grant writer, and researcher in education.  My publications are related to mental health and Biomedical engineering education and the effective use of electronic technologies in instruction.

As a student, I attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, California and studied Religious Studies and Psychology before being graduated from Boston University with a BS in Psychology. I earned my Master of Social Work from the Smith College School for Social Work in Northampton, Massachusetts.