About me
“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”
— Carl Rogers (founder of the humanist approach to psychology and one of my inspirations!)
Education and experience
I graduated Columbia University School of Social Work in 2012. My professional experience includes clinical social work at Jacobi Medical Center’s Outpatient Psychiatric Department and Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, Visiting Nurse Service of New York’s community mental health program, and private practice.
In addition to my clinical social work degree, I also completed a Master’s in Public Health at Columbia University with a focus on sociomedical sciences. I used my time in this program to research public health approaches to mental health and bring this perspective—which accounts for the societal factors which impact mental health—to my clinical work. My work is based in a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and intersectional approach to understanding mental health and people’s lived experiences.
I completed the dual program post-graduate training in Couples and Family Therapy at Ackerman Institute for the Family in May 2023.
Areas of expertise
PTSD and CPTSD
Depression
Anxiety
Special client populations
LGBTQ+
Non-traditional family and relationship structures such as families of choice and ethical non-monogamy
Cross-cultural couples and families
Members of the South Asian diaspora
Survivors of domestic violence