MY STORY

My fascination with human connection began during my studies in philosophy and psychology in New York and Boston, where I explored how people find meaning in their lives and relationships.

While building technology companies has been my primary focus as a founder, I'm now in the fortunate position of being able to take a step back to pursue my passion of combining psychoanalysis, existential philosophy, and neuroscience to help others find meaning and connection.   

EXISTENTIA is the result of over a decade of study, from ancient virtue ethics to the latest cognitive science, on wellbeing. It's also personal: the result of not being present enough in my own relationship—too absorbed in the world of big, compelling ideas—until I learned to do better. (We've been going strong for over a decade!)

"Helped profoundly when nobody else could."
Google Review
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EDUCATION

I hold a BA from Columbia and an MA from Harvard (with graduate coursework at MIT).

I received a fellowship at Yale in 2021 and the Phoenix Research Scholarship at the University of Chicago in 2022.  

I also hold a diploma in depth psychology from the C. G. Jung Centre.

—EPICTETUS

"In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.”

POWER

While writing my interdisciplinary thesis, I reached out across departments—from psychiatrists at Harvard Medical School to philosophers at MIT exploring problems in philosophy of mind—to gain exposure to diverse perspectives on the challenge of defining, measuring, and enabling  human flourishing. I explored information paradoxes with Peter Galison, head of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative, debated ideas of justice with the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, and benefitted from the work of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

I am especially well-versed in Aristotelian and Confucian virtue ethics, and I draw from ancient philosophy regularly in my sessions. I’ve done the hard work—let me help you with the relevant, distilled insights.

I realized that the more psychological/psychiatric research tried to be ‘scientific,’ the further it went from appreciating the depth and complexity of the human condition. That’s why I base my work on fundamental principles rather than on prevailing theories and methodological orthodoxies in the mental health professions, which tend to dramatically change every decade.