I work with individuals who find themselves living in the space between what is felt and what can be spoken—those whose suffering takes the shape of atmospheres: guilt without clear origin, desire that turns inward, or the sense that life is being lived at a remove. My clinical focus includes patients who experience misattunement in relationships, who feel compelled by demands not entirely their own, or who carry the weight of racialized expectations that enter the psyche like weather—ambient, pervasive, and difficult to name. Many come to me at moments when time feels stalled, repetitive, or narrowed.

I understand psychoanalysis as both an encounter and a practice of listening to what the unconscious reveals through gesture, silence, contradiction, and the living texture of the analytic relationship. I listen for the echoes of internal objects and inherited histories; for the ways that defenses both protect and constrict; for how the social world leaves deposits in the body and the self. Influenced by Fanon and contemporary thinkers of racialization, I treat the psyche not as a sealed interior but as porous—shaped by recognition, misrecognition, fantasy, and the political conditions that contour what can be imagined or refused. In analysis, I work to create a space where foreclosed or unspoken aspects of psychic life may find form and expression.

My analytic sensibility emerges from an interdisciplinary background. I am a student research psychoanalyst in training at the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute and hold a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine. My scholarly work traces the entanglements of Black thought, psychoanalysis, and German Idealism, exploring how mind, time, and racialization co-constitute one another. This orientation attunes me to the simultaneity of the intimate and the structural: how a symptom bears the imprint of personal history and collective demand at once, and how the analytic setting can become a site of reconfiguration for both.

I offer psychoanalysis (three to five sessions weekly), meeting patients in a rhythm that allows psychic life to unfold rather than constrict. I practice in Los Angeles County and Orange County, and see patients throughout California via secure telehealth. I am an out-of-network provider and can provide superbills for potential reimbursement. In all my work, I treat analysis as a place where the very texture of our internal life is a way through the violence that shapes it—the way the world has entered us, settled in us, and organized how we feel and relate.