I hope that this website gives you a good introduction to who I am as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist and will help you decide whether I am right for you. My office is located in Milpitas. Since 1995 I practiced individual psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy, helping adults feel better. I value empathy and strive to provide a safe and caring setting, where you may learn, grow, and overcome your personal challenges.
People seek emotional help for various reasons. Perhaps you are having difficulty finding a mate. Perhaps you are having trouble sustaining an important relationship. Despite the best intentions, you find yourself repeating painful behaviors toward your children, spouse, friends, and colleagues. You may feel stuck or blocked. Something is impeding your creativity.
Your work is suffering, or your goals seem out-of-reach. You may feel depressed, worried, anxious, fearful, resentful, or angry. You may feel disengaged, numbed, empty, distracted, or unmotivated. Your mood fluctuates too greatly, or you over-react too often.
People seek emotional help for various reasons. Perhaps you are having difficulty finding a mate. Perhaps you are having trouble sustaining an important relationship. Despite the best intentions, you find yourself repeating painful behaviors toward your children, spouse, friends, and colleagues. You may feel stuck or blocked. Something is impeding your creativity.
Your work is suffering, or your goals seem out-of-reach. You may feel depressed, worried, anxious, fearful, resentful, or angry. You may feel disengaged, numbed, empty, distracted, or unmotivated. Your mood fluctuates too greatly, or you over-react too often.
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We are complicated.
Our feelings and thoughts flow in complex currents.
They interact with each other, sometimes creating storms, sometimes eddies, sometimes the warmth of a summer day.
Compounding this complexity, most of our thoughts and feelings are unconscious.
We are not explicitly aware of them.
This is why we find ourselves behaving in ways that baffle us, that seem illogical or self-destructive.
This is why advice often does not work.
We are often not emotionally prepared to adopt such reasonable advice when they are given.
Our feelings and thoughts flow in complex currents.
They interact with each other, sometimes creating storms, sometimes eddies, sometimes the warmth of a summer day.
Compounding this complexity, most of our thoughts and feelings are unconscious.
We are not explicitly aware of them.
This is why we find ourselves behaving in ways that baffle us, that seem illogical or self-destructive.
This is why advice often does not work.
We are often not emotionally prepared to adopt such reasonable advice when they are given.
Emotions are ephemeral.
We may respond profoundly to a song one day and not much at all another day.
Similarly, talking about an emotional response that occurred hours or days ago will often have little emotional impact.
Capturing in words the live emotional response, in the moment, can resonate through many levels of understanding and create change.
While I will respond to you in many ways, one important aspect of my work is my focus on this moment-to-moment response.
These are moments when your unconsious emotional life is peeking into the conscious world, when it is available for conscious, emotional thinking.
We may respond profoundly to a song one day and not much at all another day.
Similarly, talking about an emotional response that occurred hours or days ago will often have little emotional impact.
Capturing in words the live emotional response, in the moment, can resonate through many levels of understanding and create change.
While I will respond to you in many ways, one important aspect of my work is my focus on this moment-to-moment response.
These are moments when your unconsious emotional life is peeking into the conscious world, when it is available for conscious, emotional thinking.
Sometimes, probably at the beginning of treatment, the suffering is intolerable.
The symptoms are too disruptive.
Medication can reduce the severity of the interfering symptoms, so that there is room for thought and psychotherapy.
I am fluent in the use of medication for the usual psychiatric conditions that affect mood and thinking.
If you prefer medication, I can advise you on their use and prescribe them for you.
Depending on your preference and need, I can combine medication with psychotherapy.
The symptoms are too disruptive.
Medication can reduce the severity of the interfering symptoms, so that there is room for thought and psychotherapy.
I am fluent in the use of medication for the usual psychiatric conditions that affect mood and thinking.
If you prefer medication, I can advise you on their use and prescribe them for you.
Depending on your preference and need, I can combine medication with psychotherapy.
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