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 old beliefs and emotional patterns holding you back from living your best life. I am not a “silent” therapist, and yet I do believe that moments of silence can tend to help less accessible parts of yourself come to light. You will find that therapy is a space for you to get to know yourself like never before, helping you gain self-awareness and a stronger sense of trust in yourself. 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 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 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.

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 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

  • 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