About Me

My interest in therapy is both professional and personal. I believe it is an important and essential tool for healing from trauma and growing as a person. A great therapeutic relationship is unlike anything else in the world—a new experience of having your deepest feelings understood.

In addition to my work as a therapist, I am a professor of health care ethics. Both therapy and scholarship are about truth—discovering and living in reality and seeing the possibilities in even
seemingly hopeless situations. My area of scholarship is the ethics of disability, death, and dying. My work has been published in top academic journals, as well as public venues like The
Washington Post, Tablet, and Parapraxis. I have also been privileged to win awards from organizations like the Hastings Center, the Society for Disability Studies, and the Chicago Center
for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. You can read more about my scholarship here.

I entered private practice after three-and-a-half years of work at two local clinics: the Schiele Clinic of the Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and the Mental Health Collaborative of Casa de Salud. At these clinics I gained invaluable experience working with diverse populations in terms of race, ethnicity, and country of origin. I also worked with clients on issues related to early life neglect and abuse, complex trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, migration and acculturation, narcissistic and borderline personality disorders, and issues of sex and sexuality. 

I provide therapy in both English and Spanish.