I'm a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice currently seeing children, adolescents, and adults in person and virtually. I specialize in gender, sexuality, and relationships of all kinds. I’m also experienced in working with people who are struggling with anger or who feel disconnected from their feelings.

I completed psychoanalytic training at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. Since completing training, I have sought additional training in trauma, in working with children and adolescents, and in working with people with disordered eating.

Prior to becoming a psychoanalyst, I studied comparative literature and held academic positions in the US, Brazil, and South Africa.

I am an active participant in the field of psychoanalysis. At the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, I’m the Chair of the Sexuality and Gender Initiative and the co-chair of the Colloquium Committee. I also teach at the National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis. And I’m Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. My writing has appeared in Parallax, ARIEL, The New Inquiry, and other places. I was awarded the 2023 Symonds Prize for my essay, “Mask Up” which was published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality. My hybrid essay, “An Apprenticeship in Not Knowing,” will be published in Autotheory and Its Others in 2025. The short piece I wrote for the 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. My academic research tracked unsayable elements of narratives; as a therapist, I listen to how the body—as much as language—holds what has not (or cannot) be spoken. Julia Kristeva describes psychoanalysis as “an apprenticeship… in living beyond despair,” which prompts me to think about how I can help people gain new insights about themselves to move beyond the places where they feel stuck. My own experience with psychoanalysis was nothing short of transformative and I bring this spirit of transformative potential to my work as an analyst.