A little about who I aM And Training Background
I exercise as part of my lifestyle, particularly enjoying training for half marathons, lifting weights, kayaking, hiking, and walking my dog in the Fells or Battle Road. I regularly play pick up hockey with friends and have a long, personal history of competitive hockey and sports. My approach to life, as well as therapy, values exercise as a primary source of self-care and self-compassion developed through a commitment to Self.
I also have a daily meditation practice and enjoy exploring the benefits of this type of practice with clients interested in developing approaches to nurturing an internal and somatic sense of Self. I currently work with my long-time supervisor who has cultivated a daily sitting practice for decades informed by a lineage of wonderful teachers in various traditions. His breadth of experience, training, and compassion are integral in informing both how I work with clients and seek to personally develop my ability to be of support to others through care for my Self. I also work with a personal meditation/mindfulness teacher/practitioner in Copenhagen, for whom I have deep respect and admiration. If interested, I would highly recommend his podcast Natural Meditation, which can be found on the Apple podcast app, Spotify, and Soundcloud.
I am a member of the New England Center for Existential Therapy and take year-long advanced trainings with founder Bob Fox, LICSW. This is a fundamental orientation I engage in to deepen my understanding of existential and attachment theory that informs my work. It also informs my personal way of Being. I am committed to being a life long learner and use multiple approaches that support this foundational training. I attempt to live an authentic lifestyle through participating in the skills and relationship to Self and Others that we explore as it pertains to your current situated-ness in life and how this informs your future.
I am also a person in recovery for years now, and have intimate knowledge of the challenges of early recovery, as well as the new challenge of a daily maintenance of a sober way of life that extends beyond physical sobriety and into emotional sobriety. It is only when the alcohol/substance abuse/addiction stops that the emotional sobriety can begin. It is an arduous and wonderful journey at the same time, and being able to hold the tension of these multiple and paradoxical truths will require patience and support. My daily renewal of sobriety is a core practice that pervades my way of life.
I am also trained in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy which I offer as an additional treatment modality. Ketamine assisted psychotherapy can result in deep and lasting change, sometimes far more rapidly than with the separate use of psychotherapy or ketamine.
I employ ketamine assisted therapy as a powerful tool for deep psychotherapy—combining deliberate preparation, a safe and connected psychotherapeutic exploration, focused intention and action, and ongoing intention of what was learned, seen, or experienced during the ketamine journey into the client’s daily life. This can result in not only new learning, but the opportunity to solidify that learning into new knowledge and wisdom. Deep, ketamine assisted psychotherapy can help change overwhelming or avoided emotional memories into a perceived past infused with compassion, equanimity, confidence, and hope.
Together, with your expertise in your own experience, the access provided through the mindful use of this medicine, and my knowledge of relational psychotherapy and navigating non-ordinary states, we create a healing relationship and space which can help you see your wounds clearly, bring the exiled parts of you home, and allow yourself to heal from your most deeply held wounds and misunderstandings.
Memberships
New England Center for Existential Therapy
Dasein Therapy - The Institute for Psychoanalytic-Existential Therapy
Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association
Trainings and Presentations
Dasein Therapy - The Institute for Psychoanalytic-Existential Therapy
2014 - 2015 Introduction to Existential-Psychoanalytic Therapy
Presentation Paper: Coming into Relation with the Repetition Compulsion
2015 - 2016 Psychoanalytic and Existential Group Supervision
2016 - 2018 Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time: A Reading Class for Therapists
Presentation Paper: Heidegger’s Being and Time and Alcoholics Anonymous
2019 - 2020 Advanced Seminar in Winnicott and Bolas
2020 - 2021 Advanced Seminar in Existential Psychology, Theology and Philosophy
2021 - 2022 Advanced Seminar in Object Relations and the Shadow: Donald Winnicott and Christopher Bollas
2022 - 2023 Advanced Seminar in The Repetition Compulsion: An Existential and Psychoanalytic Grounding
Presentation Paper: Heidegger and AA: Holding Paradox, Multiple Truths, and the Felt-Known
2023 - 2024 Advanced Seminar in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy: A Reading of the Intersection of Phenomenology and Clinical Practice
Presentation Paper: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Embodiment in Therapeutic Practice: From Tapeworm to an Authentically Embodied Self
2024 - 2025 Avanced Seminar in Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory and Relationality: From Attachment to Intersubjectivity
Training through Psychedelic Therapy Boston
2023 Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
2024 to present - Continued Consultation and Trainings with Psychedelic Therapy Boston Clinicians
2024 - 2025 AEDP Training and Consultation: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy