My approach is highly collaborative and empathic, tailored to you and guided by the evidence of what makes therapy work. I pride myself on providing a genuine presence and sincere interest in learning about you, and the situations and contexts that have shaped you. I have gotten feedback from clients who described our work together as effective and meaningful, particularly when they had struggled to find previous therapies helpful or empowering. The most effective therapy is customized to the unique person and client-therapist relationship. Given this, my areas of expertise include providing depth, experiential, and relational-cultural practices that tend to the nuances of your life and address the roots—not merely the symptoms—of what it is you hope to contend with and change. Too often, psychology overlooks the contexts and systems that impact our lived experiences. I draw from approaches within and outside of traditional psychology that help us to remember how we each are embedded in histories, relationships, and social systems. These decolonial and liberation views enable us to break out of patterns not just for individual wellbeing but collective transformation. In addition to being a licensed psychologist with over 10 years of therapy experience, I am also a professor in a clinical psychology department where I teach and supervise doctoral-level students in clinical practice. I am a psychotherapy science researcher, and have written and published over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters about effective and ethical clinical practices in psychology. I have also led workshops, trainings, and delivered spoken addresses on mental health and human rights. If you are interested in reaching out to establish care, click "Contact" at the top or bottom of this webpage, or phone 617-800-9227 and leave a message to schedule a free 15-min consultation session.