Contact me at (404) 315-7150 or HERE to get started!
Contact me at (404) 315-7150 or HERE to get started!
A patient sits down for the first time, often carrying a problem they’ve already tried to solve on their own. My work starts there, not just with a diagnosis, but with the actual shape of what’s going on. I’m a licensed psychologist practicing in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., and the work is collaborative.
We think and feel together. We look for what’s actually happening underneath the immediate problem, then we use that insight to solve it. Some people I have worked with for a few months. Others I have worked with for years. The goal doesn’t change: a relationship with yourself, and with the people around you, that actually works.
I’ve been practicing for over 30 years. That work led to Affect Relational Theory (A.R.T.), a framework I’ve developed from Silvan Tomkins’ affect theory, integrating polyvagal theory and psychoanalytic thinking. A.R.T. explains how shame functions as a biological signal and shapes the relationship patterns we repeat without realizing it.
The umbrella platform that carries A.R.T. out into the world.
Give you a way to recognize your own relational patterns, and the patterns of the people you love, without needing a clinical vocabulary to do it.
Speaks to people in midlife who are ready to author the next chapter of their own life with intention.
Names what happens when shame stops functioning as a signal and starts running the show.
Describes the moment shame first fires, beneath conscious thought, and why learning to recognize it changes everything that follows.
Diversity isn’t a value I hold separately from clinical practice. I work across a wide range of relationship structures and intimate lives that don’t fit a single mold, because the path to feeling proud and confident in who you are doesn’t look the same for everyone. It shouldn’t have to.
I’m a certified group psychotherapist. I’ve served as co-chair of the Open Sessions Committee for the American Group Psychotherapy Association for over a decade. I’m a past President of the Atlanta Group Psychotherapy Society, elected to three terms, and I previously chaired its marketing committee for one term.