Much of my professional training and experience has centered on facilitating patients' trauma recovery processes in acute settings and within a VA medical center. However, I have trained and practiced as a generalist, successfully caring for a wide variety of other conditions, from mood and anxiety conditions to adjustment challenges and personality-related phenomena. I am currently the director of Compass Health Center's trauma partial hospitalization (PHP) and intensive outpatient programs (IOP) in Chicago. In this role, I treat patients who experience distress that substantially interferes with their ability to persist in work, school, or home responsibilities as an outpatient. I also train and supervise a team of professional counselors and clinical social workers to bolster patient care and foster professional development.

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When I am not in a clinical setting, you may find me teaching or otherwise mentoring students early in their careers. I have served as a routine adjunct faculty member of Roosevelt University for nearly six years. Courses for which I have served as the primary instructor include psychodynamic counseling, the psychological study of racism, and human sexuality, among other classes. For the last four years, I have also supported students' doctoral internship applications (all have matched to preferred sites), provided formal recommendations for students seeking employment after graduation, and written letters of recommendation for students pursuing doctoral study.  

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I hope it goes without saying that mentorship is one of my core professional values.

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While I generally employ depth-oriented interventions, I am prepared to offer protocol-based psychotherapy depending on our mutual conceptualization of what is bringing you to treatment, including Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for trauma, Prolonged Exposure (PE) for trauma, and Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for depression. Patients who engage in brief protocols are generally welcome to continue their care thereafter, albeit with shifts in the structure of sessions (i.e., long-term interventions differ from short-term interventions). I sought training across modalities, which has enabled me to tailor care for you. Patients may experience interventions derived from various schools of thought, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral (including acceptance and commitment therapy and dialectical behavior therapy), existential, and narrative approaches. 

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Additional information about my background is available by request.  Thank you for your interest.