Licensed to practice in Florida and accepts 9 insurances. Specializes in Life Transitions, Self Esteem, Depression and 10 more.
(he/him)
New to Grow
I'm a Licensed Mental Health Counselor offering depth-oriented therapy for adults navigating anxiety, relationships, identity, and questions of meaning. My work is psychodynamic—we look beneath the symptom to understand the patterns underneath. I bring over a decade in my own analysis to the room, and I work in English and Portuguese,, with particular care for clients living between cultures and languages.
The first session is unhurried. It's a chance for you to say what brought you here, in your own words, and for me to listen for what matters most. We'll talk about what you're hoping for and how I work, and you can get a feel for whether this is the right fit. There's no pressure to have it all figured out—starting is enough. If we decide to continue, we'll find a rhythm that works for your life.
What I bring most is patience for what takes time to surface. I'm not in a hurry to fix you, and I won't reduce what you're carrying to a label or a worksheet. My training is psychodynamic, shaped by years in my own analysis, so I've sat on both sides of the work and know how much it asks. In session, I mostly listen closely and hold space—but I'll also name a pattern when I see one, and gently push when I think it'll move something. Having lived between countries and languages myself, I understand what it means to belong in more than one place and fully in none. Clients tell me they feel genuinely understood, often for the first time.
I work best with adults who sense that something beneath the surface is shaping how they feel and relate—and who are curious enough to look. Many are navigating anxiety, relationships, identity, grief, or questions of meaning and faith. I'm especially at home with people living between cultures and languages, including the Brazilian and Latin American diaspora, who carry the particular weight of belonging in more than one world.
Other specialties
Psychoanalytic
Psychoanalytic therapy is a way of working that takes the time to understand not just what you're struggling with, but why—the patterns underneath the symptom. A lot of what shapes our lives runs quietly beneath awareness: old ways of protecting ourselves, feelings we've learned not to feel, the same situations that keep repeating. In our work, we pay attention to all of it—what you say, what's hard to say, even what comes up between us in the room. I'm not here to hand you a quick fix or a worksheet. I listen closely, ask questions that open things up, and help you make sense of yourself in a way that lasts. Over time, understanding why you do what you do gives you more freedom to do something different.
Existential
Existential therapy starts from the questions that don't have tidy answers: what gives your life meaning, how you face loss and mortality, the freedom and weight of the choices that are yours to make. A lot of distress isn't a malfunction to be corrected—it's a person genuinely wrestling with how to live. In our work, I take those questions seriously rather than treating them as symptoms. We make room for the harder ones—about purpose, aloneness, faith, what you're responsible for and what you've made of your freedom—and think them through together honestly. The aim isn't to resolve the mystery of being alive, but to help you meet it more fully and live in a way that feels like your own
Humanistic
Humanistic therapy rests on a simple but serious conviction: that you are the expert on your own life, and that given the right conditions, people have a real capacity to grow and become more fully themselves. My job isn't to diagnose you or steer you toward who I think you should be. It's to offer genuine attention, honesty, and respect—a relationship in which you can be met as you actually are, not as you perform yourself for the rest of the world. From that ground, things tend to move on their own. People become more honest with themselves, more able to trust their own sense of things, and freer to live in a way that reflects what truly matters to them.
Attachment-based
Attachment-based therapy starts from a basic truth: the ways we learned to connect, protect ourselves, and seek comfort early in life don't disappear—they shape how we love, trust, and relate as adults. If closeness once felt unreliable or unsafe, that often lives on as anxiety in relationships, difficulty depending on others, or a pull to withdraw when things get close. In our work, we pay attention to these patterns as they show up in your life and even in the relationship between us, where old expectations quietly reveal themselves. Understanding where they came from loosens their grip. Over time, the aim is a more secure way of relating—to others, and to yourself—where connection feels less like a risk and more like something you can trust.