Services offered
Psychotherapy is a space for you to talk privately with me about your hopes, fears, worries, and dreams. You will find our relationship to be close and conversational and yet like no other. We’ll address your current concerns as well as the inner and outer factors holding you back from living your best life. I am an interactive therapist and also give you plenty of space to find your own voice. In therapy, you will get to know yourself like never before, and you will gain a stronger sense of self-trust. Our time together will help you improve your relationships and increase your overall feelings of well-being and happiness in love, work, and other important endeavors.
Psychoanalysis is an intensive therapeutic process that offers a deeper understanding of yourself, your past and present relationships, and your circumstances. Contemporary psychoanalysis integrates classical views with new and exciting findings and developments. This direction involves more of a commitment since we meet two or more times per week for a period of time. Entering analysis may be recommended for those who suffer from long-standing problems that affect their feelings of well-being, their relationships, and ability to meet precious life goals. Many people find their relationship satisfaction, levels of creativity, sense of meaning, and enjoyment of life increase during and after being in psychoanalysis.
Couples and Family Therapy is a space for people in close relationships to delve into the knottiest challenges you are having with each other. In this facilitated and nonjudgemental atmosphere, difficult subjects and troublesome ways of relating can be addressed and worked through. This kind of focus on your dynamics can produce more feelings of intimacy, collaboration, and enjoyment in your relationship(s). While many come to therapy together to deepen their commitment to each other, some also enter into therapy to find a way to become more separate, or change or end the relationship. There are a variety of reasons people seek therapy and the first session can help clarify your individual and mutual goals. In addition to couples or partnership work, I offer counseling for family members and others in close relationship in which conflict or difficulties have arisen. Whatever your partnership or family structure, my focus is on the quality of connection: how people communicate, rupture and repair, and find their way toward optimal connection and generativity.
Consultation and Coaching offers a more targeted approach for people who need strategic guidance in specific areas of life or in their profession. While consultation and coaching often yield therapeutic results, we will work together on deepening or broadening your professional capacities, or achieving specific goals, personal or professional. This work is informed not only by clinical training but by my own experience as a leader and program director. I understand firsthand the particular pressures of organizational life, the complexity of professional relationships, and the ways that workplace dynamics can mirror and amplify our deeper patterns. I bring both psychological depth and practical fluency to these conversations.
Specialization
My areas of focus include:
depression, anxiety, and stress
mood instability and disorders
relationships, intimacy and sexuality (LGBTQ, polyamory, gender-fluid friendly)
trauma and complicated grief and loss
major life events and transitions
questions of meaning and identity
career or school-related stress or conflict
clinical and social/emotional applications in the workplace
parent/child relationships and inter-generational trauma or estrangement
new parents / challenges with parenting children and adolescents
chronic and life-threatening illness and pain / caregiver burnout and support
a Buddhist-informed approach combined with analytic therapy
expanded states (e. g. ketamine) / short and long-term integration
consultation for therapists and leaders in a variety of organizational settings