Individual Therapy Services
I offer individual psychotherapy to adults across a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and professions. Therapy provides a dedicated space to focus on your experiences, concerns, and goals as you navigate difficult periods, major decisions, meaningful transitions, or the ongoing work of understanding yourself and building a more fulfilling, sustainable, and values-aligned life.
Starting Individual Therapy
People begin therapy for many different reasons. You may be facing a specific concern or transition, struggling with a recurring pattern, or wanting a dedicated space to understand yourself and your life more deeply. You do not need to arrive with a fully defined problem or a fixed set of goals. We can begin with the concerns that bring you to therapy and refine our focus as we develop a fuller understanding of your needs and goals.
My practice addresses a broad range of psychological concerns, with specific expertise in life transitions and the psychological dimensions of career and finances. Therapy may involve exploring personal and relational patterns, clarifying your goals and values, strengthening coping and decision-making skills, and taking meaningful action toward greater clarity, flexibility, and well-being.
Common Areas of Focus
Life transitions and major decisions
Career decisions, transitions, stress, and uncertainty (see section below)
Financial decisions, anxiety, avoidance, and relationship dynamics around money (see section below)
Academic stress, adjustment, and functioning
Anxiety, stress, uncertainty, and feeling overwhelmed
Perfectionism, overfunctioning, and self-criticism
Depression, feeling stuck, or loss of direction
Romantic, sexual, and other relationship concerns
Other interpersonal dynamics and concerns
Complex family dynamics and conflict
Immigrant and bicultural experiences, including intergenerational differences in values and expectations
Men’s experiences, concerns, and well-being
LGBTQ+ experiences, concerns, and well-being
Cultural and identity development
This list is not meant to be exhaustive. If you are unsure whether your concerns fall within my practice, you are welcome to inquire.
A Whole-Person Approach
I seek to understand both the concerns that bring you to therapy and how they relate to the broader context of your life – including your identities, experiences, cultures, relationships, work, values, history, and circumstances. The broader picture matters because a difficulty may be shaped by pressures elsewhere or by interactions among different parts of your life and experience. Stress connected with one concern can also affect other parts of your life, while the same experiences or patterns may underlie concerns that do not initially seem connected. Understanding these connections can give us a fuller picture of what is happening and help us identify where change may be most useful.
How broadly we explore these connections and contextual influences will depend on the focus of our work. Therapy may remain closely centered on a particular concern, examine broader patterns and influences, or shift in emphasis over time. A whole-person approach does not mean that every part of your life and experience needs to become a focus of therapy; we will consider what is relevant to understanding or addressing the concerns most important to you.
A Collaborative and Integrative Process
My approach to therapy is warm, collaborative, integrative, and grounded in nonjudgmental curiosity. I bring clinical training, experience, and knowledge of different therapeutic approaches, while you bring essential knowledge about yourself, your life, and what has and has not worked for you.
As an integrative therapist, I draw from a range of evidence-based perspectives and strategies based on what may be most helpful to you. At times, therapy may be exploratory and insight-oriented; at others, it may be more practical and focused on coping, communication, decision-making, or behavior change. We will regularly discuss how therapy is going and refine our approach as your needs and goals evolve.
Together, we can make sense of recurring patterns, develop new perspectives and strategies, recognize and build on your strengths, deepen self-compassion, and identify realistic ways forward.
Areas of Specific Expertise
Career-Focused Therapy
Work and career can affect mental health, identity, relationships, financial security, and other areas of our lives. Trained in vocational psychology, I help clients navigate career decisions and transitions, job dissatisfaction, workplace stress, burnout, unemployment, job insecurity, questions of meaning and identity in work, and other consequential points in their working lives.
Financial Therapy
Money and financial circumstances are often closely connected with mental health, identity, relationships, career decisions, our sense of security, and other areas of our lives. In financial therapy, I help clients address financial anxiety, shame, avoidance, and stress; explore money histories and beliefs; navigate major decisions and transitions; work through financial dynamics within relationships; and consider questions involving career, income, wealth, identity, values, and financial responsibility.
Scheduling and Meeting Options
I generally recommend meeting weekly at the beginning of therapy so that we can establish continuity and momentum. Depending on your needs and the course of our work, sessions may later move to every other week or a less frequent schedule.
I offer in-person therapy at my Dupont Circle office in Washington, D.C., as well as virtual therapy for clients in D.C., the broader DMV area, and participating PSYPACT states.
Interested in Working Together?
Finding the right therapist can feel daunting. A free 20-minute consultation gives us an opportunity to briefly discuss what you are looking for, answer initial questions, and consider whether we might work well together.