I am a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. My general areas of expertise include matters of gender, sexuality, and relationships of all kinds, though I would also consider myself a generalist who works with anyone struggling with anger, feelings of blankness, or sensing that they simply want more from life.

I came to psychoanalysis because I was searching. After teaching in 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. One thing I loved about teaching was that it opened up ways of thinking critically, creatively, and collectively about the world through a social justice lens. But when I landed a dream job—teaching college in prison through the Bard Prison Initiative—I realized that psychoanalysis was changing me in a way that made teaching more rewarding but ultimately more unworkable. I was a better teacher because I noticed more of the layered complexities of what was happening in the classroom, but this awareness also limited me because the space of the classroom limited how I could respond to students’ emotional or psychological distress. Where I used to thrive in the group dynamics of the classroom, I now became focused on dedicating myself to my patients. The psychoanalysis I practice tends to ways that the self can expand its own capacities and possibilities in tandem with understanding how various collectivities give that self shape and meaning.

Beyond my clinical practice, I’m the Chair of the Sexuality and Gender Initiative and co-chair of the Colloquium Committee at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP). I teach courses on psychoanalysis at MIP and other Institutes, and I provide consultation services for other clinicians. I am also Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research where I occasionally teach courses on all manner of vaguely literary topics.

Writing is still important to my critical and creative practice, especially as I continue to un-learn academic conventions and feel my way towards other forms. My writing can be found in Parallax, ARIEL, The New Inquiry, and other places. In 2023 I was awarded the Symonds Prize for my essay, “Mask Up” which was published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality. My essay, “An Apprenticeship in Not Knowing,” will be published in Autotheory and Its Others (Punctum Press 2026). The short piece I wrote for the The Ersatz Experience, “On Copies,” also shows my longstanding interest in experimentation and personal-theoretical writing.