How do you describe your therapeutic approach?
I don’t treat symptoms in isolation. I work with the underlying structures that produce them: the habits, relational patterns, and identity configurations that shape how someone performs, relates, and lives. Depression, anxiety, burnout, and performance blocks are not problems to eliminate. They are signals pointing toward something that requires attention.
My approach is integrative. I draw from cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based methods when structure and skills are needed, and from psychoanalytic psychotherapy when deeper patterns require exploration. The work is directed by what the client needs rather than by allegiance to any single model. Some clients benefit from structured skills work. Others need space to examine patterns they have never had language for. Most need both. The goal is not peak performance alone, but sustained performance supported by an integrated life that remains meaningful.
What should I expect in our first session?
A direct, thoughtful conversation focused on understanding and direction. I’ll want to know what brought you in, what’s working, and where you’re reaching limits. I’m interested in the full picture: performance demands, relationships, and internal experience. By the end of the session, we will have a shared understanding of what we are working on and why.
What do you specialize in?
Performance under pressure. Leadership and decision-making when stakes are high. The internal structures that shape behavior in moments of consequence.
I work with clients navigating depression, anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, identity conflict, career transitions, and the psychological weight that accompanies responsibility, visibility, and isolation across executive leadership, professional sport, the arts, medicine, and other high-stakes domains.
What inspired you to get into this work?
I began in academic philosophy, studying meaning, consciousness, and human flourishing. That led me to the body through exercise science, then to the mind through sport psychology, and ultimately to clinical training. Each step brought me closer to the same questions. How do people operating under extreme demands become who they are capable of being? How do they close the gap between potential and execution? And once they do, how do they sustain that without losing themselves in the process?
What might clients be surprised to learn about you?
Many of my clients never planned to seek support. I didn’t either, for a long time. I understand the hesitation.