As a career changer, my interdisciplinary background deeply informs my work as a therapist and my understanding of specialized worlds and experiences.
TEENS & TWEENS
At my core, I am a tween & teen therapist. I love their curiosity about themselves, others, and the world around them. I meet that curiosity with humor, honesty, and deep respect for their growing need for privacy and autonomy. Together, we explore their identity and how to build a life that reflects it.
I have extensive experience working with LGBTQIA+ youth, including trans youth. I approach questions of gender identity and sexual orientation with openness and care, giving young people space to explore who they are, what they need, and what gender and sexuality mean to them.
I work closely with parents and caregivers to understand what your child may not yet have words for and strengthen communication, boundaries, and connection at home. When one family member changes, roles reorganize across parents, siblings, and the family as a whole. I work with families to navigate these shifts and find new ways of connecting and relating.
PERFORMING ARTISTS & WRITERS
As a former theatre professional with an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing, I use theatre, music, and storytelling as a shared language in my work with performing artists and writers. We’ll use the dynamics of the creative process to explore perfectionism, self-doubt, and the uncertainty of building a life in the arts.
I also invite you to bring the art you create and consume into the therapy room. We might explore a song you can’t stop listening to, a character you can’t stop thinking about, or something in your own work that surprised you. What we create and what captures our attention can illuminate conflicts, desires, and questions we are still working to understand.
FORMER ORTHODOX JEWS
Through my work and personal relationships, I’ve developed a deep familiarity with Chasidic, Yeshivish, and halachic communities without being directly part of them. This allows us to begin with a common cultural language and focus on your individual experience of belief, family, community, identity, and change.
BARIATRIC PATIENTS
Bariatric surgery changes far more than your body. After years of obesity and repeated attempts to lose weight, you may find yourself navigating rapid changes in your relationship to food, coping mechanisms, identity, sexuality, family dynamics, and how you’re perceived by others.
As you redefine your life, we may celebrate your successes, mourn the armor that once kept you safe, feel the guilt of “betraying” body positivity or feminism, experience the overwhelm of clothes shopping, and sit with the disorientation of not recognizing your own reflection.
GENDER, SEXUALITY & RELATIONSHIP DIVERSITY
I work extensively with members of the LGBTQIA+ community, including trans and nonbinary individuals, and with adults navigating non-monogamy, kink/BDSM, and sex work. I’m attuned to the ways pleasure, connection, and fulfillment can coexist with complex, sometimes contradictory emotions and stir up old conflicts. We’ll explore these parts of your life in all their complexity and nuance, without either pathologizing or idealizing them.