About me

I work with adults struggling with anxiety, grief, life transitions. I have a particular interest in the complicated, layered identities that form at the intersection of cultures: the experience of immigration, of being multiracial, of growing up as a third-culture kid straddling worlds that don't quite map onto each other. I know firsthand that these identities can be sources of remarkable richness and painful dislocation, and I bring that understanding into my work.

I also have a commitment to supporting journalists, especially those navigating the cumulative toll of vicarious trauma — an occupational hazard that the profession has historically been reluctant to name.

A former reporter and foreign correspondent, I have spent my entire professional life helping people make sense of their complicated stories. I became a social worker later in life after graduating from NYU’s Silver School of Social Work in 2020, and also hold a master’s in journalism from Columbia University (1993).

I am currently an advanced psychoanalytic candidate at the Institute for Expressive Analysis, and also work under the supervision of Lorraine Caputo, LCSW-R.

Though I am not fluent in Korean, I speak it conversationally and am comfortable working with Korean nationals and first-generation Americans who may have some difficulty expressing themselves in English.