Many therapists emphasize that they work with a particular population or demographic, indicating to patients within those categories that they will be seen and that the therapist has an understanding of who they are based on typical characteristics and experiences. I work with people of varying ages, genders, sexualities, ethnic, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds. From my perspective, it is important to see each person as unique, with a life path specific to him/her/them that is waiting to unfold. It is important for me as an analyst not to make assumptions as to who one is or how one should live, for every psyche presents itself an individualized way. Preformed opinions and stances, even if positive and supportive, often negatively impact the conditions that allow for an individual self to emerge. While many challenges that we face in life such as anxiety, depression, shame, career and vocational concerns, aging, grief, relationship difficulties and many others are universal, the form and meaning of these challenges are unique to each person.

Although I work with many different types of people, much of my work is with those identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and queer/questioning and with issues that are commonly faced, such as shame/internalized homophobia, coming out, transitioning, gender experience and expression, aging, HIV and AIDS, sexual compulsivity, substance use and abuse and relationships and dating. I find that the Jungian approach, in its non-pathologizing stance and orient towards meaning and full expression is particularly well suited to LGBTQ+ people as well as others experiencing marginalization.

Many people do not know that Jung was involved in the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous and understood the mechanism by which recovery takes place; that is, though spiritual transformation. Jungian analysis and twelve-step recovery work tend to complement each other. Together, they offer a basis for containing and transforming addiction as well as a process by which one can live the larger and more spirited life that addictions are pressing towards. I have a good deal of experience working with people who are addicted, in (and not in) recovery and with those for whom spirituality, both eastern and western, is an integral part of life.