I am a psychoanalyst and psychologist with over 30 years of clinical experience in a variety of settings. After working at a private counseling center for 4 1/2 years, I opened my private practice in 1984 as a licensed marriage and family therapist. While completing my doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology, I trained at Operation Concern (later known as New Leaf), an outpatient clinic for the LGBT community; Mt. Zion Crisis Clinic, a 24 hour psychiatric emergency clinic, and the Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry Unit, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco. I became licensed as a psychologist in 1991. In addition to private practice, I have worked as an Attending & Consulting Psychologist on the HIV Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at San Francisco General Hospital from 1992 to 1996.

I received my psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute (now known as the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis) and graduated in 2002. I am a faculty member and Training & Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, where I served as chair of the Psychoanalytic Education Division from 2016 to 2022.

In addition to my private practice of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and consultation, I teach at various training institutions in the SF Bay Area and lecture locally, nationally, and internationally, and am a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Volunteer, at the University of California, San Francisco. My areas of teaching interests include gay/lesbian and gender issues, sexuality, psychotherapy education, and psychotherapeutic technique.