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Services

  • Virtual Sessions: 45-minute individual therapy sessions for California and New York.

  • Corporate Benefits: For clients whose employers partner with Modern Health, sessions may be covered through your corporate benefits.

Who I Work With

  • High-Functioning Stress & Burnout You're capable, productive, and by most measures succeeding — but privately you're running on empty. The drive that got you here has become harder to sustain, and what used to feel like motivation now feels like pressure you can't turn off. We work to understand what's underneath the overdrive, shift the patterns keeping you stuck, and build a way of operating that doesn't cost you so much.

  • Relationships & Emotional Patterns High achievers are often more practiced at performing than connecting. If intimacy feels complicated, communication breaks down under pressure, or you find yourself repeating patterns you can't quite explain — this is worth exploring. We look at how your history, culture, and conditioning shape the way you show up with others, and work toward something more grounded and authentic.

  • Identity, Transitions & The Deeper Questions Career pivots, leadership transitions, midlife, major loss — sometimes success itself raises the hardest questions. Who am I outside of what I've built? What do I actually want? If you're navigating a significant shift or feeling quietly disconnected from your own life, this is the work that helps you find your footing again.

Our work focuses on helping you:

  • Sustainable energy — not just recovering from burnout, but understanding what drives it so it stops being a cycle.

  • Clearer thinking — making decisions from your own values and judgment rather than pressure, urgency, or what you think you should want.

  • Better relationships — not through scripts or techniques, but by understanding your own patterns well enough to show up differently.

  • Less internal noise — the self-criticism, the rumination, the constant recalibrating. Learning to operate without all of that running in the background.

  • A stronger sense of yourself — not as a project to optimize, but as someone whose inner life is as developed as everything else they've built.

My Approach

I work psychodynamically, which means we pay attention to patterns — in how you think, relate, and operate — and trace them back to where they started. Understanding the "why" tends to be what makes change actually stick, rather than just managing symptoms. That said, insight alone isn't always enough. Where it's useful, I draw on CBT, EMDR, and mindfulness and somatic tools — not as a formula, but when they fit what you're working on. The goal is always to move from understanding something intellectually to feeling it shift. Sessions are collaborative. You bring what's on your mind, and we follow what's most alive in the room. There's no agenda to perform or present yourself in a particular way — just an honest look at what's actually going on.

Understanding the why — tracing patterns back to where they started, so change actually sticks.

Shifting what needs to shift — practical tools for processing what insight alone can't move.

Building something lasting — not just feeling better in the room, but operating differently outside of it.

What Happens in a Session?

There's no fixed structure or agenda. You bring what's on your mind — something that happened, a pattern you keep noticing, a decision you're turning over — and we work with it together. Some sessions are more reflective, tracing something back to understand it better. Others are more focused, working through something specific that's been building. Over time the two tend to inform each other — the insight starts to show up in how you actually operate. You don't need to arrive with the right words or a clear problem statement. The work usually starts wherever you are.

Other Areas I Support

While my work centers on high-achieving adults navigating stress, identity, and relationships, I also work with:

Anxiety & chronic worry — Depression & low mood — Grief & loss — Cultural & cross-cultural stress — Parenting & family dynamics