I am Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the small liberal arts college of the Massachusetts public university system.  Previously, I served as a Lecturer in the Doctorate in Clinical Social Work program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice, where I was also Affiliated Faculty with the Program for Psychoanalytic Studies, before I resigned in protest.  I also previously held faculty appointments at the Smith College School for Social Work and Lesley University, and have taught at a number of different psychoanalytic institutes nationwide.  I attended New York University (BA, Anthropology & Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies), Simmons University (MSW), the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy), and Smith College School for Social Work (Ph.D).

Service to my profession is an important part of my work.  I have been a leader at APA Division 39 (Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology), serving on their board, directing their sections on social responsibility and BIPOC issues, and co-chairing their 2023 annual conference; I was honored to receive the Division’s Diversity Award.   I serve on the editorial boards of Studies in Gender & Sexuality and Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society.  I’m a very proud member of the MSCA (Massachusetts’ public college teachers union), serving in multiple executive and organizing roles in my local and state union.

My work as a psychotherapist, researcher, and teacher are all animated by a desire to explore and address things that wound, traumatize, and alienate people.  As a therapist, I specialize in working with people who have experienced profound trauma, often in their early lives, and usually related to various forms of abuse and neglect.  Some forms of abuse and neglect are perpetrated by people close to us, including our family members; other forms are related to different kinds of structural violence like racism, gender discrimination, poverty, and ableism.  Often, these kinds of abuse and neglect are interrelated.  All are crucial to address, in therapy and beyond.

This way of seeing the world is also the frame through which I approach my work as a researcher and a teacher.  My research and theoretical work focuses on issues related to White Supremacy, from fascist propaganda to school shootings to workplace discrimination   As a teacher, I have worked with everyone from high school students to post-doctoral colleagues, across a number of different disciplines.  I bring an interdisciplinary approach to everything I do, including my practice as a therapist.