What if staying connected didn’t mean loosing yourself?
I used to be a professional actor in New York. I'm a second-generation Iranian immigrant who was "too white" to play Middle Eastern and "not white enough" to be considered white. I spent years learning how to become whatever a room needed me to be.
That skill kept me working. It also meant I didn't always have a say over my own body or self-expression. I got very good at tracking other people's reactions and very disconnected from my own.
Most of my clients are doing some version of this in their relationships and in the bedroom—performing instead of feeling, tracking their partner instead of staying connected to themselves. I became a therapist because I wanted to support how invisible identities—neurodivergence, queerness, cultural conditioning, trauma—live in the body and shape our relationship to sexuality.
Identities: mixed-race, Jewish, neurodivergent, queer, nonbinary
Approach
You can name the pattern and still be living in it. I'm interested in what your body is doing while your brain explains things away.
I'm direct. I'll hold you accountable to your values even when it annoys you, and I'll notice when you start overriding yourself to keep things comfortable. Sessions aren't only talking—we work with what's showing up in your nervous system in real time, the protective parts running the show, the moments you go from feeling something to managing it.
I’m trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Crucible Therapy for Couples, Applied Polyvagal Theory, and liberation-based frameworks.
My biggest inspirations are Esther Perel, David Schnarch, Terry Real, adrienne maree brown, Emily Nagoski, art and poetry.
Education & Clinical Training
AASECT Sex Therapy Program, South Shore Sexual Health Center
Internal Family Systems-IFS (Level 2), IFS Institute
IFIO (Intimacy from the Inside Out), IFS for Couples
Crucible Therapy for Couples, ICTEC
Trauma Conscious Yoga Therapy, 475hrs
Yoga for PTSD & Severe Mental Illness
Applied Polyvagal Theory