We often look for therapy when something in our emotional life stops making sense or feels stuck. We might feel caught in anxiety or grief, or in a loop we cannot think our way out of. Sometimes these difficulties show up in relationships, repeating the same conflict, distance, or longing. These moments often have a history, shaped by early relationships and experiences that still influence how we feel and relate. Much of what troubles us in the present began before we had words for it. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy offers a steady space to understand these patterns and begin to change them.

In this work, we slow things down. We stay with feelings that are hard to name or easy to overlook. Together, we pay attention to how experience shows itself in the present: in relationships, in the body, and in recurring thoughts or reactions. Change tends to come gradually, as what has been longstanding becomes clearer and begins to loosen its grip.

My clinical work is grounded in psychoanalytic training at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. I also work as an academic with a research focus on collective trauma and memory, and this informs how I listen. I attend to how experience is shaped by individual history, as well as by the stories, losses, and identities we inherit and work to change.