I'm a depth-oriented psychotherapist in San Francisco, working with adults, individually and in couples, in a psychodynamic, relational tradition, with additional training in somatic, body-based approaches. The work is unhurried and attentive to what lies beneath the surface.
People find their way here around anxiety and depression, grief and loss, relationships that have grown painful or distant, difficult transitions, and the quieter questions of meaning, identity, and how to feel more like themselves.
How I work
The work looks beneath the problem you come in with, to the patterns underneath it: the long-standing ways you relate and protect yourself. It draws on both insight and the body, and makes room for dreams.
I welcome LGBTQ+, queer, transgender, non-binary, and non-monogamous clients, in an affirming and culturally sensitive practice.
Areas of focus
- Anxiety, depression, and stress
- Grief and loss
- Trauma and PTSD
- Relationships, marriage, and family
- Life transitions
- Self-esteem and identity
- Men's issues
- Obsessive-compulsive (OCD)
- Bipolar disorder
- Borderline and personality organization
Where I practice
- C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco James Goodrich Whitney Clinic
- Gerdenio Manuel Center for Psychotherapy Co-Founder & Psychological Associate
- Equity Health Behavioral Health
Background
I've spent my career trying to understand people. I began in neuroscience, then spent more than a decade as a design researcher, listening closely to how people live and what they struggle to say. Over time I wanted to do that work more directly, one person at a time, and trained as a psychotherapist. I'm completing my doctorate in clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and my training includes psychoanalytic, somatic, and contemplative work.