About

I am a clinical social worker in public/private practice in San Francisco (licensed to practice in both California and New York). As a social worker, I adhere to a person-in-environment perspective, which means that I think of suffering and healing both as depending on the experiences we have internally/intrapsychically and those we have in the world/interpersonally. I work from a psychoanalytic and trauma-informed approach and take into account the multitude of experiences that shape being human  – where and when we are born, by whom we are raised, how we were (or were not) understood by important others around us, how the world in which we live supports or undermines us, and how our social identities (race, gender, orientation, ableness) and position us – when trying to best understand how to work with any given individual.

In addition to my clinical work, I teach, write, supervise, present, and consult. You can access my CV here.