My Patients

What ties all of the people I work with together is a curiosity about themselves, a willingness to grow and change, and a need to deepen their understanding of the psychological and social forces that lie below the surface.  That understanding becomes a foothold facilitating their changing their way of thinking, feeling and acting in the world.   

Like the people one meets every day in San Francisco, my patients play many different roles in the world. They are artists, writers, performers, designers, financiers, scientists, engineers, builders, teachers, professors, students, politicians, administrators, attorneys, health care workers, small business owners and homemakers.   They come from many different national, ethnic and religious backgrounds.  They represent many different generations from Gen Z to Baby Boomers. They represent every racial, gender, sexual orientation and identity.   They are single, married or multiply partnered.  

I list this diversity, yet I am aware that psychotherapy is a process that helps people to go beyond external markers of identity and to let go of labels when they do not fit them well.