Services offered

Psychotherapy is a space for you to talk privately with me about what troubles you, and your hopes for yourself. The therapy relationship is close and conversational and yet like no other. Our ongoing talks will help you address current issues as well as uncover and address old beliefs and emotional patterns that hold you back from thriving in your life. Therapy is not a miracle cure but it will help you feel more like your truest and most vital self. Our time spent together will increase your self-awareness and self-confidence, helping you feel more satisfied with your relationships and better able to pursue and realize your life’s dreams.

Psychoanalysis is an intensive therapeutic process that offers a deeper and comprehensive understanding of yourself, your background, 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 a choice to accelerate personal growth and increase one’s engagement with life, or it may be recommended for those who suffer from long-standing problems that deeply affect their well-being, relationships, and ability to meet life goals. Many people find their levels of creativity, sense of meaning, and enjoyment of life increase during and after being in psychoanalysis.

Couples Psychotherapy is a space for people in close or intimate relationships to delve into the knottiest challenges you are having with each other. In this facilitated and supportive 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.

Specializations

The people in my practice reflect a range of ages and identities. I am LGBTQ, polyamory, gender fluid, and nonbinary informed and friendly. I also am culturally attuned and aware of oppressive systems of whiteness, race, class, ageism, and ability, and committed to understanding these systems as part of my life’s work.

My areas of focus include:

  • depression, anxiety, and stress

  • mood instability and disorders

  • relationships, intimacy and sexuality

  • trauma and complicated grief and loss

  • major life events and transitions

  • questions of identity and belonging or fears of isolation

  • parent/child relationships and inter-generational conflict

  • parenting differently-abled and neuro-divergent children and adolescents

  • chronic and life-threatening illness and pain / caregiver burnout and support

  • climate change anxieties and questions of meaning

  • consultation for therapists and leaders in a variety of organizational settings

  • a Buddhist-informed approach combined with analytic therapy

  • combining analytic therapy with other healing modalities