I work with clients to find meaning and wisdom in difficult places.

I specialize in trauma and dissociative conditions. Trauma is the kind of wound that hides a part of us from ourselves (it ‘dissociates’ our daily awareness from unbearable experiences and memories in order to protect us), often at great cost to our lives. As a sensorimotor psychotherapist, I help clients use mindful attunement to bodily feelings to elicit those hidden parts and to create a wider circle of feeling, insight and awareness.

In addition to trauma, I work with mourning and loss, life transitions, chronic pain and illness, depression and anxiety, and struggles with identity and meaning.

As a former academic, I also have experience working with academic distress and trauma, creative blocks, and the integration of deeper feelings into intellectual work. I use tools like ‘focusing’ and ‘thinking at the edge’ to help academics do more integrated and soulful work.

Though my core is in sensorimotor, I am informed by Jungian and interpersonal psychoanalysis, and contemplative psychotherapy. I treat these as rough maps to a similar destination, namely, a richer and more resilient form of the life we are living.

At heart, I see therapy as a practice of being human - two people, sitting together, seeking insight into life and what matters most, and how to live more in tune with that.

Currently accepting adult clients for teletherapy (IL and WI) or hybrid (WI).

Education

MSW, Fordham University (clinical social work)

PhD, University of Chicago (religion and ethics)

Advanced Training

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (currently completing level 2 training)

Brainspotting (level one)

Studies in Jungian and Kohutian psychoanalysis, Center for Religion and Psychotherapy and the C.G. Jung Institute - Chicago