I am a clinical psychologist in private practice in Bethesda, Maryland. I have practiced full-time since 2012, working primarily with adults in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and providing emotional and psychological assessment for children, adolescents, and adults. My work is grounded in psychoanalytic training and a long-standing commitment to understanding emotional life with care and rigor.

I work with adults seeking psychoanalytic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis, often when patterns feel entrenched, relationships feel repetitive, or earlier forms of treatment have reached a limit. My approach emphasizes curiosity, emotional meaning, and the ways unconscious experience shapes how a person understands themselves and others.

I also provide emotional and psychological assessment for children, adolescents, and adults. Assessments may be sought to better understand emotional functioning, clarify developmental or relational concerns, or when psychotherapy feels stuck and additional perspective may help treatment move forward.

My psychoanalytic training has been with the Contemporary Freudian Society. Earlier in my career, I completed a three-year postgraduate training program in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. Both have shaped how I listen, think, and work clinically.

My clinical background also includes substantial experience treating trauma and PTSD, developed in part through work in military medical settings and other hospital systems. This experience continues to inform my approach to trauma and to longer-term emotional difficulties that have their roots in earlier events.

Training & Credentials

I received my doctorate in clinical psychology from The George Washington University and completed training in forensic assessment, psychotherapy, and supervision in academic medical centers, court-based settings, hospital systems, and military medical centers. I maintain a private practice in Bethesda, Maryland.