I offer psychotherapy and psychoanalysis through a collaborative and reflective process, informed by psychoanalytic practice and psychiatric training. My work is also shaped by years of teaching, supervision, and institutional leadership in and outside the United States.
Treatment may be psychotherapy alone or psychotherapy combined with medication when clinically appropriate.
Seattle • In-person & Zoom sessions
ABOUT
I am a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Seattle. My work is rooted in the belief that emotional suffering often has meanings that deserve careful, sustained attention rather than symptom relief alone.
My professional path has included psychiatric residency and fellowship training through the University of Washington, psychoanalytic training at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, couples therapy training at the William Alanson White Institute, and many years of teaching, supervising, and institution-building.
In addition to my clinical work in Seattle, I founded the Tehran Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, an institute devoted to psychoanalytic training, education, and interdisciplinary dialogue. This international perspective has deepened my attention to cultural nuances, the personal meanings carried in language, identity formation, trauma, and the complexities of human experience.
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy & Medication
Couples Therapy
Treatment APPROACH
How I work
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis can help when someone feels stuck in repeating patterns, conflicted in relationships, burdened by self-criticism, or unable to understand why suffering persists despite effort and insight.
In my work, I listen closely to emotional life, relationships, dreams, questions of self-worth, existential dilemmas, conflicts, and the ways the past continues to shape the present. My aim is not only symptom relief, but helping create a fuller, more flexible inner and relational life.
Some people come for once- or twice-weekly psychotherapy. Others seek a more intensive psychoanalytic process. The form of treatment is tailored to the person, their difficulties, and their aims.
Professional BACKGROUND
Current roles
Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, Private Practice
Faculty, Seattle Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
Clinical Instructor, University of Washington
Clinical Consultant for Couples Therapy, William Alanson White Institute, New York City
Founder and Board Director, Tehran Center for Psychoanalytic Studies
Selected contributions
My academic and psychoanalytic work includes presentations in international conferences, publications, translations, and editorial contributions.
These have addressed the psychoanalytic understanding of a range of clinical, social, and institutional questions, including group identity in socio-political contexts, religious extremism, addiction, chronic pain, the subjective experience of minorities in the therapeutic encounter, the evolution of technique into relational approaches, and the challenges of institutional development of psychoanalytic thought.
Consultation
I offer consultation for mental health professionals interested in psychoanalytic work.