Harvard-Trained Psychotherapist — Individual Therapy in Durham, NC & Online Statewide

People often come to individual therapy when the life they have built begins asking more than their familiar ways of holding it together can answer. Anxiety has become relentless. Grief has changed the light in the room. Relationships keep circling old injuries. Success, competence, even love can coexist with a private sense that something has narrowed.

With more than twenty years of experience, I offer thoughtful adults a time set apart from the demands of ordinary life: a place to look closely at what keeps returning, what no longer fits, and what might become possible with more honesty, freedom, and room to choose. I see clients in person in Durham and online throughout North Carolina.

What Brings People Here

While every story is singular, certain threads appear often: the successful professional who can’t shake the feeling they’re performing their life rather than living it. The person navigating loss—not only of people, but of futures they'd imagined. The one whose anxiety has become so familiar it feels like personality. People in relationships who’ve become expert at having the same fight in different costumes. The person who simply suspects that more of life might be available to them.

Many of these threads run through particular worlds I know well and write about specifically: academics and researchers, physicians, college and graduate students, and writers, musicians, and artists.

Some people come looking for what they can name — therapy for depression, for anxiety, for grief — and some with only the sense that something has gone quiet in them.

You don’t need a diagnosis or a crisis to begin therapy. It can be a place to think out loud with someone who is listening closely.

How I Work

I'm trained in the psychodynamic tradition and completed advanced clinical training at Harvard. That training taught me to listen for the ways the past remains active in the present—not as destiny, but as a living logic. We'll notice what you do before you know you're doing it. We'll track the stories you tell yourself and ask whether they still hold true, if they ever did.

But this isn't archaeology for its own sake. It is practical: understanding why you do what you do is the beginning of choice. My style is direct, engaged, and occasionally irreverent. I’ll offer observations, not prescriptions; questions, not answers you could have googled.

The office itself—midcentury furniture, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, good light—is made for sustained conversation rather than institutional formality.

Beginning

First sessions are exploratory. There is some necessary paperwork, and then we talk. I listen closely, ask questions, and we notice what begins to emerge. The session is not organized around a symptom score or a treatment plan written before the work has found its shape.

If we decide to continue, we'll settle into a regular rhythm, often weekly or every other week, shaped by both the work and the realities of your life. A life becomes more legible under sustained attention; continuity lets us notice not only what you bring deliberately, but what returns on its own.