EXPERIENCE
With 25 years of experience in mental health, including the last 14 years in private practice, I have substantial experience working with individuals with a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, interpersonal trauma, and issues around relationships, attachment, identity, and life transitions, as well as other difficulties or experiences of pain that are hard to categorize.
I am licensed in DC, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, and authorized to provide online psychotherapy to residents in 42 states across the U.S.
EXPERTISE
Interpersonal trauma
Relationship concerns
Anxiety and depression
Personal and interpersonal growth
Attachment issues
Life transitions
Stress/burnout
Gender, racial, and intersectional identity
Grief and loss
Self-esteem
Immigration experience
Bi-cultural, bilingual, and “in-between” experience
Sense of belonging
I also often work with individuals who have a unique relationship with the sense of belonging — whether to family, workplace, various social or cultural groups, or even one's own body or life.
I am bilingual in English and Japanese, and living between languages and cultures is an additional area of my specialty, both clinically and academically. I have published in a peer-reviewed journal and presented at international conferences.
Asian, POC, LGB, female-identifying, and AFAB clients often seek me out, as well as those who have had disappointing experiences with prior therapy. I have also worked with numerous individuals in academia, science, and the arts. I can also conduct psychotherapy in Japanese.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
Duquesne University
Existential-Phenomenological Psychology & Psychodynamic Theories and Practice
Pre-Doctoral Internship
University of Virginia
Counseling and Psychological Services
Post-Doctoral Residency/Staff Psychologist
Carnegie Mellon University
Counseling and Psychological Services
M.A. in Psychology
Duquesne University
Advanced Training
Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ICP+P) Fellowship
2023-2024
Keeping Our Work Alive Seminar Series
Western Pennsylvania Forum for Relational and Body Psychotherapy
2013-2023
Brief Child Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Course
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
2020-2021
James T. McLaughlin Training Program In Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Child & Adolescent track)
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
2012-2013
James T. McLaughlin Training Program In Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
2010-2012