I provide psychiatric evaluation, diagnosis, and ongoing treatment with psychotropic medication when indicated. I emphasize informed consent to make sure you understand the risks and benefits. I use the lowest effective dose possible to minimize side effects.

Research shows that therapy combined with medication management results in the best outcomes for most mental health diagnoses.

I specialize primarily in psychodynamic psychotherapy which is a type of talk therapy that can help you understand and address emotional difficulties by exploring your unconscious patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Dreams, free association, a slip of the tongue, it’s all fair game.

Unlike some therapies that focus on learning coping skills or reframing thoughts to help with current symptoms, psychodynamic therapy helps us gain insight into the root cause of our behavior. It's less structured than some other therapies, allowing you to lead the conversation and explore what's most important to you. The relationship with me as your therapist is also an important part of the process, as it can provide valuable insights into your personal relational patterns.

Drawing primarily from the Gottman Method, I work with couples struggling with basic issues of mistrust, miscommunication, and general overwhelming conflict.

When we are part of a system, each part of that system has to want to change in order for growth to occur. Relational issues are nothing more than patterns of behavior that keep us stuck where we are. My work is to help both partners recognize which patterns of behavior are keeping them stuck in a cycle of unhappiness.

Similarly to couples therapy, family therapy also consists of helping all members of a system realize the patterns of behavior that are keeping them stuck.

Family therapy is a little less structured and usually requires a good amount of flexibility from all parties (including the therapist) to achieve a working style that will produce results.