About Me

I’m a psychologist with a global background, a modern therapeutic lens, and nearly two decades of experience helping individuals and couples understand themselves more deeply. My work sits at the intersection of emotional health, attachment, identity, and the ways our histories shape how we move through the world.

My approach is active, attuned, and grounded in both evidence-based and relational frameworks. I don’t take a distant or passive stance. Instead, I work with you in real time—tracking what unfolds emotionally, making sense of your patterns, and helping you build the steadiness and clarity needed for meaningful change.

I believe therapy should be clear, collaborative, culturally aware, and grounded in the real world. The people I work with come to therapy not because they are failing—but because they are evolving.

My path into psychology began in an unexpected place — as an undergraduate Business Economics major, where I first became curious about the motivations, pressures, and invisible systems shaping people’s choices. After graduation, I entered corporate America, but it quickly became clear that the corporate world was not where I belonged. Even while working full-time and carrying a full graduate course load, something deeper kept pulling me toward the emotional lives of people — not the systems around them.

My clinical identity was shaped across many countries and contexts. I trained and worked in psychiatric emergency rooms in Chicago, trauma recovery programs in New York, France, and England, and specialized centers for survivors of torture in Amman and New York City. These environments expanded my understanding of resilience, identity, and what it means to heal in the aftermath of profound harm.

I also designed trauma-informed programs for youth, families, and community organizations, wrote treatment manuals, and trained clinicians internationally — including providers in the West Bank. Across all of these experiences, one truth became unmistakably clear:

Trauma is rarely a story of the past. It lives in the present — in how we cope, protect, push through, or stay “strong” at the cost of ourselves.

Across these experiences, I’ve supported survivors of war, political violence, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, FGC, and complex family systems—as well as the quieter, everyday forms of emotional inheritance that shape a life without ever being named. These experiences shaped how I understand identity, attachment, culture, and the emotional legacies people carry.

Over time, I began to see that many of the struggles people bring into therapy are not simply individual problems. They are shaped by culture, migration, family history, and the silent expectations we inherit about who we are supposed to be. My work is grounded in helping people untangle those threads — so they can reconnect with themselves more clearly and live with greater intention.

Today, I practice in Stockholm, working primarily with English-speaking adults and couples who want therapy that is emotionally honest, culturally aware, and grounded in both science and lived experience.

Whether we are exploring relational patterns, childhood experiences, identity, or the protective strategies that once helped you survive, my role is to walk with you — steadily, clearly, and compassionately — as you build a life that feels more aligned with who you are becoming.