I am a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. I have long-standing interest in matters pertaining to gender, sexuality, and relationships of all kinds. Above all, I enjoy working with people who want to feel more or struggle less, or those who simply want more from life. My first commitment is to figuring out what approach works best with the person I’m in the room with.

Prior to becoming a psychoanalyst, I was a literary scholar. I’ve held teaching appointments at the Bard Prison Initiative, NYU, the Bard Microcollege, and other places. I continue to teach at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, as well as at several psychoanalytic Institutes.

I first came to psychoanalysis because I was searching. After teaching college for nearly two decades, I knew something had to change. Psychoanalytic training, as much as my own analysis, showed me that I was what needed to change. I began psychoanalytic training with a curiosity about the affinities between literary studies and psychoanalysis—like listening for what isn’t said explicitly. Over time, I grew to appreciate that listening was only part of what makes psychoanalysis work; the other part was sensing and feeling into the spaces where words hadn’t yet worked their shaping power onto experience.

My approach to psychoanalytic theory is informed by the literary and the social as much as the metapsychological, but the psychoanalysis I practice depends on what happens over time with each person.

Beyond my clinical practice, I’m the Chair of the Sexuality and Gender Initiative at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP), where I completed psychoanalytic training. I teach courses on psychoanalysis at MIP and other Institutes, and I provide consultation services for other clinicians.

My writing can be found in Autotheory and Its Others, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Parallax, ARIEL, The New Inquiry, and other places. In 2023, I was awarded the Symonds Prize for my essay, “Mask Up.” The short piece I wrote for the The Ersatz Experience, “On Copies,” shows my longstanding interest in experimentation and personal-theoretical writing.