About Me

I am a Harvard-trained child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist. I worked in Boston for six years before returning to Chicago in 2015. I trained in psychoanalysis in Boston and Chicago, and I am a faculty member at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. My approach is compassionate, comprehensive, and uniquely tailored to the needs of each patient and family.

As an undergraduate at Stanford University, I spent several months in Chile and became curious about how our cultural context shapes our internal experience, our relationships with others, and our sense of what is possible. While studying medicine at the University of Chicago, I received a Doris Duke research fellowship and spent a year in Ghana studying maternal and infant health. I then moved to Boston, where I completed adult psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. During that time, I returned to West Africa, where I was involved in capacity-building in mental health care. I also studied the impact of war on children in Liberia. 

In my clinical practice, I am interested in how we recover from losses and painful experiences and create meaning. Psychotherapy is a tool that can allow people to develop a narrative in order to make sense of their experiences and gain a sense of greater control in their lives.

Phone

(312) 620-0409

Location

25 East Washington Street
Suite 906
Chicago, IL 60602