Prior to becoming a psychoanalyst, I completed a PhD in Comparative Literature, held an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow position in South Africa, and taught at several universities.

At the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, I serve as Chair of the Sexuality and Gender Initiative and Co-Chair of the Colloquium Committee. And I am Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

My writing has appeared in Parallax, ARIEL, The New Inquiry, and other places. I received the 2023 Symonds Prize for my essay, “Mask Up” which was published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality. My essay, “An Apprenticeship in Not Knowing,” is a hybrid piece that braids together reflections on my own analysis, literature, and psychoanalytic theory; it will be published in the Fall of 2024 in an anthology titled, Autotheory and Its Others. The short piece I wrote for the Substack called The Ersatz Experience, “On Copies,” also shows my longstanding interest in experimentation and personal-theoretical writing.

I find many affinities between literary studies and psychoanalysis. Where my academic research tracked the unsayable elements of a text, my work as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist attends to silenced and unsaid meanings in the gaps or slips of spoken language. The way Julia Kristeva describes psychoanalysis as “an apprenticeship… in living beyond despair” leads me to think about how I can help people gain new insights about themselves. My personal experience with psychoanalysis has guided me in new ways of knowing myself, shown me how to connect more deeply with others, and allowed me to make peace with stuff from the past. Change is slow and often difficult, but psychoanalytic therapy, for me, has been nothing short of transformative.

I offer one complementary session either in person or virtually to explore how we might work together. You can request an appointment through the Contact button or call me at 646-543-8142.