Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

I’m a psychoanalyst and a registered psychotherapist, and I’ve been in private practice since the late 1990s.

I work with people who, in spite of great difficulties, have not given up on finding meaning in their lives. Very few arrive because of a single event. They arrive because things have been building for years: an isolation that became ordinary somewhere along the way, a depression that crept in rather than announced itself, anxiety so constant it no longer reads as anxiety, a grief that was handled at the time and has come back, an early trauma that still sets the terms. Some are managing relationships that keep ending the same way. Others are asking questions about identity — gender, sexual, ethnic. Others are planning a transition and want to understand it before they make it.

I’m licensed in Ontario and work online with adults in Toronto, across Canada and internationally where jurisdiction permits. If you’re not sure whether that includes where you live, ask.

Sessions take place by secure video or audio. Working online makes the practice available regardless of where you live, and it keeps the same conditions as work in a consulting room: the same day, the same hour, the same privacy. The reliability isn’t a detail: an hour that is always there, week after week, is part of what the work runs on.

I’m a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, a graduate of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and I hold a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto.