I am a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Irvine, California. I have treated patients and families from infancy and older for about fifteen years. I use a holistic and integrated approach to the assessment and treatment of mental health problems that combines a number of different perspectives, including medical and evidence-based treatments along with psychoanalytic and developmental theories and techniques. My Persian background and experiences as an immigrant, though decades ago, have made me familiar with the importance of cultural differences and issues of assimilation. I can help individuals and parents who encounter intense challenges, including language barriers, identity confusion, and assimilation into a new community. In addition to my clinical work, I am deeply interested in promoting psychoanalytic approach and teaching and supervising professionals in training. Since I graduated from the adult psychoanalytic program, I have taught psychoanalytic theory and technique at the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP) to post-graduate students. I am also an advanced candidate in NCP’s Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Program. I am the founder and director of Rustin Psychoanalytic Institute in Tehran (online), a non-profit organization for the advancement of psychoanalysis. I served for about ten years as a volunteer faculty member at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) in the Psychiatry Department, where I taught psychiatry residents and psychotherapy fellows online. I also taught and supervised students at Tehran Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (TCPS) for a few years.