I have extensive experience working with depression, anxiety, and disorders resulting from trauma in adults and adolescents, particularly with populations from typically under-represented ethnicities and minorities. I have advanced training and education in Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from NYU and the White Institute (eating disorders course-work). I specialize in chronic pain and health issues. I am fluent in English and am conversational in Spanish.
My treatment philosophy is an integration of cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and humanistic-existential psychological theories. I approach every individual specific to their own difficulties and experiences within a social-cultural context, which means that I emphasize taking time to get to know you, your history, and what your life-situation is right now.
We will work together to understand your current challenges, explore ways to resolve them, and/or find ways to live with them more effectively (i.e., acceptance). My approach is not a quick-fix; it is a gradual process based on first developing a foundation of trust within our relationship that allows us then to really get at the sometimes scary, even painful, sources of suffering in your life--forging the path to true healing, growth, and life-affirming change.
