I have extensive experience working with depression, anxiety, and disorders resulting from trauma in adults and adolescents, particularly with populations from typically under-represented ethnicities and minorities. I have advanced training and education in Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from NYU and the White Institute (eating disorders course-work). I specialize in chronic pain and health issues. I am fluent in English and am conversational in Spanish.

My treatment philosophy is an integration of cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and humanistic-existential psychological theories. I approach every individual specific to their own difficulties and experiences within a social-cultural context, which means that I emphasize taking time to get to know you, your history, and what your life-situation is right now.

We will work together to understand your current challenges, explore ways to resolve them, and/or find ways to live with them more effectively (i.e., acceptance). My approach is not a quick-fix; it is a gradual process based on first developing a foundation of trust within our relationship that allows us then to really get at the sometimes scary, even painful, sources of suffering in your life–forging the path to true healing, growth, and life-affirming change.