Listening to what speaks
beneath the surface.
A space to speak freely,
think deeply, and be heard.
Hi there,
You may be here because something in you is looking for more. More steadiness, clarity, or a deeper sense of belonging or connection. Perhaps you’ve moved between countries or cultures, or spent years adapting to environments where you felt pressure to change parts of yourself in order to fit in, be accepted, or stay connected.
Living in a new culture — or between cultures — can shape how we relate to ourselves and others in subtle but lasting ways. There can be forms of grief and disconnection that are difficult to name, along with ongoing questions about identity, home, and where we truly feel safe. Often, these experiences are carried alone.
I am a US-trained psychotherapist offering relational, attachment-based, and psychodynamic therapy. My work explores how early relationships, cultural experiences, and life circumstances shape the ways we connect with others, protect ourselves, and move through the world. Many people I work with are unsure whether their experiences “count” as trauma, even when they feel constantly anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, or emotionally guarded. Together, we make space to understand those experiences gently, without rushing to labels or easy answers.
Belonging, Identity and Repair
Therapy is a place to explore experiences of disconnection — moments when you didn’t feel understood, supported, or met in the ways you needed. These experiences can take shape in families, relationships, communities, or the wider cultural environments we move through.
Alongside these experiences is often a deeper longing: the wish to belong, to feel seen without having to explain yourself, and to feel safe enough to fully be yourself in relationship.
If you’re used to adapting, holding things together, living in survival mode or making sense of experiences on your own, having a space that centers you, it may feel unfamiliar at first. We move slowly, at a pace that respects what your system has needed to survive and what it’s ready to explore now.
You don’t have to arrive with clarity or a plan. This is a space to be curious, to notice patterns, and to reconnect with parts of yourself that may have gone quiet while you were finding your way.
Here, the complexity of your experience is welcomed.
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This practice may be a good fit if you:
Live between cultures or have relocated far from home
Feel a persistent sense of disconnection or longing
Struggle with burn out, compassion fatigue
Notice recurring patterns in relationships
Carry grief that doesn’t feel fully acknowledged
Feel “functional” yet emotionally distant or alone
Mothers and Fathers seeking to heal their own wounds so they can parent with greater presence, connection, and intention.
Are curious about your inner world, even if you don’t know where to begin
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I offer psychoanalytic, attachment-informed psychotherapy for expats and internationally mobile adults living across borders. I interweave somatic therapy when necesary
This work is rooted in the understanding that we are shaped in relationship — and that what has been ruptured in relationship can be repaired there, too. Early attachments, cultural transitions, and significant losses leave traces. They show up not only in memory, but in the ways we protect ourselves, reach for others, or pull away.
In therapy, we attend to what unfolds between us: the feelings, patterns, silences, and longings that emerge in the room. Together, we listen for what has been carried alone, misattuned to, or left without language.
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I work slowly and collaboratively, with deep respect for the ways your mind and nervous system learned to survive. I am attentive to cultural context, power, and identity — and to how these shape both suffering and resilience.
I do not see symptoms as problems to eliminate, but as communications — signals of something that once made sense and now seeks understanding.
““One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.””