Services

How I can help

I draw from multiple evidence-based approaches and adapt to what each person needs.

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How I work

I offer online talk therapy and EMDR to adults and adolescents in New York and Florida. Sessions are 50 minutes at $200 — with in-network insurance accepted in New York and Florida — and every session happens over secure, HIPAA-compliant video. I'm licensed in both states, so the work continues wherever you are in New York or Florida.

Talk Therapy

Sometimes you just need a space where you can say the thing out loud without filtering, performing, or managing how it lands. Talk therapy will be the foundation of our work together. Through honest conversation, I help you slow down, make sense of what you're carrying, and start to understand the patterns that keep showing up in your life. This isn't about getting advice or being told what to do. Together, we build insight, find language for things that feel hard to name, and figure out what you actually want. Talk therapy will involve a blend of the therapeutic approaches listed below.

EMDR

Some experiences don't respond to talking alone. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapy designed to help the brain process what got stuck: memories, experiences, and beliefs that still carry a charge even when you think you've moved on.

The client experience is fundamentally different from talk therapy. You're not narrating or analyzing. You hold a memory, image, or body sensation in mind while bilateral stimulation (eye movements, taps, or tones) activates the brain's natural processing system. The work happens beneath language. For many people, this means reaching things that years of talking couldn't quite touch.

Sessions feel different too. Sometimes quieter, sometimes more intense. Processing happens within the session and we close with stabilization. Sessions don't end in the middle of something unresolved. Over time, old triggers lose their charge and the past starts to feel more like the past. Learn more about EMDR →

Modalities

Therapeutic approaches

I draw from multiple modalities and adapt to what each person needs. Most sessions weave several approaches together.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT examines the relationship between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. When patterns of thinking are making things harder: catastrophizing, all-or-nothing thinking, assumptions that haven't been examined. We work to identify and shift them. It's practical, evidence-based, and often skill-focused. You leave sessions with tools you can actually use.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

ACT is about changing your relationship to difficult thoughts and feelings rather than trying to eliminate them. The goal isn't to feel better by avoiding discomfort. It's to live according to your values even in the presence of it. You learn to observe your thoughts without being ruled by them, and to take action that matters to you regardless of what your mind is saying.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy is interested in the roots. Why do certain patterns keep showing up? Why do particular situations or people affect you the way they do? We look at early experiences, relational dynamics, and the patterns that shape how you move through the world today. It's slower and more exploratory than some approaches, but often where the most meaningful change happens.

Person-Centered Therapy

Person-centered therapy is built on the idea that people have a natural capacity for growth when given the right conditions: genuine connection, unconditional acceptance, and a therapist who isn't trying to steer you toward a particular destination. Rather than applying a technique, the focus is on the quality of the relationship itself. Most of what I do rests on this foundation.

Parts Work

Parts work starts from the idea that we're not one unified self. We're made up of different parts, each with its own perspective, role, and history. The part that shuts down under pressure. The part that keeps trying to be perfect. The part that carries old pain. Understanding these parts and building compassion for what they're doing reduces internal conflict and creates a different relationship with yourself, not just a change in behavior.

Existential Therapy

Existential therapy takes seriously the bigger questions: What am I doing with my life? What do I actually believe? What does it mean that this happened to me? It's particularly useful when you're facing major transitions, loss, identity questions, or a sense that the life you're living doesn't reflect who you actually are. Less about symptom management, more about how to live.

What to expect

How it works

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Session 1

Intake

We'll spend time getting to know each other. I'll ask what brought you in, a bit about your history, and what you're hoping to get out of therapy. You'll have space to ask questions too. There's no pressure to commit beyond that first appointment.

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Sessions 2–3

Psychosocial History

We go deeper into your background: family history, significant relationships, and experiences that shaped you. This gives us a fuller picture of what we're working with and helps guide where to focus.

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Ongoing

Therapy

Sessions are 50 minutes, typically once a week. We'll talk, I'll ask questions, and over time patterns start to emerge. Progress can be slow and nonlinear, but most people notice something shifting within the first couple of months. There's no set endpoint. We check in regularly.

Areas of focus

What we can work through together

Trauma & EMDR +

Some things don't respond to talking about them. If a memory still shows up in your body, your reactions, or your sleep, EMDR works on it directly. Childhood and complex trauma, hypervigilance, dissociation, and the triggers that seem to come from nowhere.

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Trauma & PTSD +

For what an experience left behind: hypervigilance, flashbacks, numbness, a nervous system that never fully stands down. Single-incident and complex trauma, childhood experiences, and PTSD — with EMDR available when talking alone isn't reaching it.

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AAPI & BIPOC +

Being the only one in the room is its own kind of tiring. Code-switching, model minority pressure, racial trauma, family expectations that don't translate, and the strange grief of being close to your parents and far from them at the same time.

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Therapy for Therapists +

You hold space all day. Somewhere to set it down: burnout, compassion fatigue, imposter feelings, and the specific loneliness of being the one everyone else leans on.

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Anxiety +

The kind that looks like competence from the outside. Overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, panic, and the exhausting math of anticipating what everyone needs before they ask.

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Depression +

Some seasons are heavy, some are just far away. Low motivation, numbness, the voice that narrates everything you did wrong, and the effort it takes to seem fine.

Explore: Depression

Life Transitions +

Graduating, changing careers, ending a relationship, moving somewhere new. The in-between chapters, when the old map stops working and the new one hasn't been drawn.

Explore: Life Transitions

Relationships +

The patterns that keep repeating. Boundaries, attachment, dating burnout, family obligation, and learning how to be close to people without disappearing into them.

Explore: Relationships

Identity & Self-Esteem +

Self-worth, belonging, cultural expectations, and the quiet question of who you are when nobody's watching or needing anything from you.

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Grief & Loss +

People, relationships, versions of yourself, futures you'd already imagined. Grief doesn't move on a schedule, and it doesn't need fixing. It needs a witness.

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