Life transitions
A move, an ending, a promotion, a diagnosis, becoming a parent or losing one—the moments that ask you to be a slightly different person than you were.
What I help with
What I help with
This page is here for one decision: whether what you are carrying is something I work with. Below is who I see, how sessions are structured, and the four areas most of my work falls into.
What I see most
Self-esteem
The private verdict you have reached about yourself, and how much of your life is arranged around not testing it.
Anxiety
Worry that arrives before the thought does, and a body that stays braced after the reason has passed.
Format
Individual therapy
Weekly sessions, in person or virtual. We start with what is pressing and work outward to the patterns underneath it—how you learned to cope, what those strategies protect, and what they now cost.
Some weeks are practical. Others are slower and more exploratory. Both belong.
Format
Couples therapy
For partners who keep having the same argument in different clothes, who have grown quiet with each other, or who are facing a transition, a rupture, or a decision.
My work does not presume a gender, an orientation, or a relationship structure. We look at the cycle you are caught in and at what each of you is protecting inside it.
Some of the areas I work with
Burnout, work pressure, and career questions
You are still delivering. That is part of the problem—nothing has visibly broken, so there is no obvious moment to stop. But the recovery is not happening. The work you were once good at now takes something out of you that the weekend does not put back.
I do not treat burnout as a time-management problem. We look at what you believe you have to produce in order to be allowed to rest, and what might change if worth were no longer measured that way.
Anxiety, stress, and emotional overwhelm
Anxiety is not always a thought. Sometimes it is a body that will not settle—a chest that stays tight, sleep that thins out, a sense of scanning for the next thing before the current thing is finished.
We work on both levels: practical ways to interrupt a spiral, and the deeper question of what the anxiety is guarding against.
Life transitions, identity, and self-esteem
A transition is rarely just logistics. A move, a promotion, a break-up, a diagnosis, becoming a parent, losing one—you are being asked to be a slightly different person, and no one hands you instructions.
The work is less about resolving the question quickly and more about staying with it long enough to hear your own answer rather than the one you were raised to give.
Relationships, attachment, intimacy, and grief
Most people do not come in saying they have an attachment pattern. They say the same argument keeps happening, they have gone quiet with someone they love, or closeness is difficult to tolerate.
We look at what the pattern protects and whether it is still worth the cost. This includes grief—the death of someone, and also the quieter losses that get no ritual.
The fuller list
In case you are looking for a specific word. Most of these turn out to be the same few threads wearing different clothes.
Anxiety and stress
- Generalized worry
- Panic
- Perfectionism
- Sleep and insomnia
- Burnout
- Coping skills
Identity and self-worth
- Self-esteem
- Body image
- Women's issues
- Racial and cultural identity
- Mixed and bicultural identity
- LGBTQ+ affirming care
Change and relationships
- Life transitions
- Career questions
- Grief and loss
- Family conflict
- Attachment patterns
- Intimacy and sex
Deeper and longer work
- Depression
- Trauma and PTSD
- Childhood neglect
- Sexual abuse
- Domestic abuse
- Dissociation and numbness
If what you are dealing with needs a level of care I cannot provide safely, I will say so at the consultation and help you find the right person rather than start something that will not hold.
Format and locations
In person in the Financial District in Manhattan and Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and virtually for clients across New York State.
Sessions are available in English and Spanish.
A first step
A short conversation can help us see if it feels like a fit.
Fifteen minutes, no cost, no obligation. We talk about what brings you here and whether working together makes sense—and if someone else would be the better fit, I will say so.
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