CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | CONSULTANT | EDUCATOR
I approach this subject through a clinical lens that respects both biology and biography. Symptoms are never only private experiences; they are also shaped by relationships, sleep, threat, culture, medication, and the meanings a person has learned to give to distress. Personality assessment examines...
More...I approach this subject through a clinical lens that respects both biology and biography. Symptoms are never only private experiences; they are also shaped by relationships, sleep, threat, culture, medication, and the meanings a person has learned to give to distress. Relapse does not mean treatment...
More...In scientific writing about mental health, I try to keep two commitments together: diagnostic clarity and human dignity. A useful clinical idea should help a person become more understandable, not smaller. Bipolar disorder is not simply moodiness. It involves episodes of depression and mania or hypo...
More...My preferred clinical stance is curious, structured, and careful. It asks what is happening in the nervous system, what has happened in the person’s life, and what can realistically change without pretending that suffering is simple. Gender shapes exposure to violence, caregiving expectations, econo...
More...My preferred clinical stance is curious, structured, and careful. It asks what is happening in the nervous system, what has happened in the person’s life, and what can realistically change without pretending that suffering is simple. Anxiety is not a character flaw. It is an activation of threat det...
More...I approach this subject through a clinical lens that respects both biology and biography. Symptoms are never only private experiences; they are also shaped by relationships, sleep, threat, culture, medication, and the meanings a person has learned to give to distress. Group therapy provides a social...
More...A psychiatric formulation should never be only a checklist. It should connect symptoms with development, current stress, risk, resilience, and the treatment relationship itself. Perinatal mental health includes psychiatric symptoms during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Depression, anxiety, OCD...
More...I approach this subject through a clinical lens that respects both biology and biography. Symptoms are never only private experiences; they are also shaped by relationships, sleep, threat, culture, medication, and the meanings a person has learned to give to distress. Antipsychotic medications can r...
More...My preferred clinical stance is curious, structured, and careful. It asks what is happening in the nervous system, what has happened in the person’s life, and what can realistically change without pretending that suffering is simple. Attachment patterns describe expectations about closeness, safety,...
More...A psychiatric formulation should never be only a checklist. It should connect symptoms with development, current stress, risk, resilience, and the treatment relationship itself. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on psychological flexibility: the capacity to act in line with values while maki...
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