When people ask what kind of patients I work with, I find it genuinely difficult to answer. I have specialized training in some of the harder edges of human experience — what often gets labeled personality disorders, addiction, trauma, and gender-affirming care — but the people I work with bring concerns that don't stay within, and aren't defined by, any single diagnosis.
Among my patients are:
people whose inner lives have made closeness feel dangerous or out of reach
those struggling with substance use
those with pasts marked by trauma
people navigating their gender and sexual identities
those carrying the moral weight of living in a time of ecological crisis
veterans integrating their service into civilian life
contemplatives seeking to integrate spiritual life with psychological depth
professionals at a crossroads — burnout, career transitions, or the sense that who they are becoming no longer fits the work they do
couples who love each other and can no longer find their way back
people facing the quieter but no less serious weight of life transitions, anxiety, depression, or a sense that life has drifted from what they had hoped it would be
Some of the concerns I work with include:
trauma / PTSD
anxiety
depression
self-esteem
personality disorders
creative blocks
separation anxiety
career difficulties
health problems
paranoia / psychosis
panic attacks
grief / loss
divorce / separation
spiritual crisis
anger dysregulation
gender dysphoria
sexuality
overall stress
chronic pain / fibromyalgia
bipolar disorder
quarter-life crisis
ADHD and learning difficulties
life transitions
trust / intimacy issues
family conflict
numbness / dissociation