specializations
As a clinical psychologist, I maintain a diverse practice, working with individual adults. I provide psychotherapy for a variety of concerns, difficulties, and problems in living. Additionally, I am specialized in the following areas:
Media vita in morte sumus.
Death Anxiety & Mortality
Death, an inevitable existential reality, manifests itself in myriad ways throughout our lives. Within this landscape of existential inquiry, I strive to provide a compassionate and open space for patients wanting to explore their concerns, suffering, and curiosities surrounding death-anxiety and personal mortality.
Grief & Mourning
In our culture, experiences of grief and mourning linger in the shadows. Mourning tends to be pathologized and misunderstood, often met with discomfort and minimization. Yet, all human beings will face loss, whether it be through death or the changing tides of life. Amidst the tumult of emotions that accompany grief, one may feel adrift, lost in the complex terrain of sorrow, struggling to find a way forward.
In psychotherapy, all aspects of mourning are welcome. I aim to cultivate an environment where patients can openly address and better understand their experiences of loss while finding ways to live with them.
Reproductive Loss and Losses Within Matrescence
Reproductive loss encompasses a spectrum of experiences, often shrouded in invisibility and censorship. From miscarriages and missed miscarriages to unsuccessful IVF treatments and decisions surrounding embryos, terminations for medical reasons, or elective abortions, each reproductive loss experience is unique.
This type of grief is frequently disenfranchised, its significance minimized or unrecognized by society. Moreover, reproductive loss and trauma brings to the surface complex issues surrounding bodily autonomy and trust in one's own body. It can be particularly challenging to grieve ephemeral losses—those intangible losses we cannot fully hold or touch. These are also losses without ritual.
Motherhood too can conjure up grief experiences. Matrescence, the journey into motherhood, involves profound transformations and various losses, including shifts in identity and relationships. It is my hope to acknowledge these complexities and offer support in navigating these transitional and liminal experiences.
Grief Dreams & Nightmares
Dreams may hold a profound significance in the processing of grief and loss. Grief dreams and related nightmares have a unique ability to unsettle, evoking feelings of fear, confusion, sadness, nostalgia, and discomfort.
While grief dreams may seem upsetting at first, delving deeper into them unveils the insights they may hold. Dream-work is an integral part of the psychotherapeutic treatment I offer.