I believe meaningful growth begins with a clear vision to reach self-actualization—the desire to experience healthy love, lasting change, and a deeper connection to self. Whether you’re recovering from toxic relationships, breaking free from love addiction, or seeking to rewrite long-standing patterns, our work together will center on transforming how you relate to yourself and others. 

As your therapist in Falls Church, VA and NY, I offer a depth-oriented, research-informed approach to healing that moves beyond symptom management. Therapy with me is a collaborative process focused on:

• building emotional self-awareness

• strengthening internal safety and self-trust

• rewiring obsessive, anxious, or compulsive relational patterns

• integrating shadow work and relational insights

• creating the conditions for secure, aligned love

This isn’t quick-fix advice. It’s deep, sustainable transformation — the kind that restores your sense of self from the inside out.

In addition to my clinical work, I’ve taught self-designed college-level writing courses on the psychology, philosophy, and anthropology of romantic love. In these classes, students explored enduring questions such as: What actually constitutes healthy love? Is passion synonymous with chaos? At what point does love mature from infatuation into something stable, ethical, and real? Drawing on thinkers like Tolstoy—who described “prosaic love” as the ongoing commitment to knowing oneself and one’s partner as evolving people—we examined how love is shaped by integrity, self-knowledge, and emotional responsibility. We also challenged romanticized notions of love as madness, obsession, or fate, asking whether intensity alone can sustain intimacy.

My academic work bridges ancient and modern philosophical theories of love with contemporary psychological frameworks, including attachment theory, the triangular theory of love, and current neuroscience research on bonding, obsession, and emotional regulation. This interdisciplinary lens deeply informs my clinical practice, allowing me to help clients distinguish between chemistry and compatibility, attachment activation and genuine intimacy, fantasy and reality.

At the core of my work—both now as an educator online and the therapy room—is the belief that love is not something we fall into blindly, but something we learn to choose consciously, skillfully, and with self-respect.

My Credentials:

Smith College–B.A. in English Language & Literature

American University–M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Teaching, Highest Honors

University of Pennsylvania–M.A. in Professional Mental Health Counseling, Highest Honors