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 people struggling with anger, feelings of blankness, or sensing that they simply want more from life.

I completed psychoanalytic training at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis where I am now the Chair of the Sexuality and Gender Initiative and the co-chair of the Colloquium Committee. I also teach at MIP and at the National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Prior to becoming a psychoanalyst, I studied comparative literature and undertook teaching and research at universities in the US, Brazil, and South Africa.

In addition to my clinical practice, I am Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and former Adjunct Professor at the Bard Prison Initiative. My writing appears 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.

Julia Kristeva describes psychoanalysis as “an apprenticeship… in living beyond despair,” which prompts me to think about how the work of analysis is one that brings people to new insights about themselves and moves us beyond the places where we feel stuck. This is the transformative potential of psychoanalysis at its best.