Background

I’ll be honest: Writing about myself in this way is challenging. I think we’ll get a much better sense of each other when we can speak directly, but I’ll take a stab at this for now.

I have nearly a decade of experience as a therapist and am fortunate to have trained with many brilliant and respected clinicians who played a major role in my development. I completed my pre-doctoral and post-doctoral training at Cambridge Health Alliance under the auspices of Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry. My internship included both generalist work in a community-based outpatient clinic and specific training within the Victims of Violence clinic, a trauma-focused team founded by Judith Herman and Mary Harvey. My post-doctoral fellowship was within the Program for Psychotherapy, where I gained advanced training on theories and practices of psychotherapeutic change, with particular focuses on longer-term therapy relationships, psychodynamic approaches, and work with the trans and gender diverse community. Additional training and clinical experiences include work with veterans suffering from trauma-related distress, family work in community-based clinics, private practice psychotherapy with trans and gender diverse individuals and their loved ones, emergency psychiatric evaluations, and psychological and neuropsychological assessments. In a commitment to my never-ending growth as a clinician and to the care of my clients, I continue to participate in elective peer supervision, receive regular elective individual supervision, and regularly attend continuing education courses. I am active in the American Psychological Association societies for counseling psychology (Division 17), psychotherapy (Division 29), and the psychology of gender and sexual orientation diversity (Division 44); hold memberships within the Massachusetts Psychological Association and World Professional Association of Trans Health; and am active in the production and consumption of relevant psychological research.

Patients, clients, and colleagues have often mentioned my warm nature. Additionally, I believe my interrogation and processing of my own masculinity and manhood have helped me to develop ways of working effectively with people of all genders, and that this can be an asset to my patients and clients. Finally, my commitment to justice and progress and my ongoing work as an anti-racist white person motivate me to attune to the power dynamics that can manifest or be recreated in therapy relationships, and to center oppressive contexts in conceptualizing a person’s psychology or mental health when appropriate.