Treatment Approach

I work to resolve your problems through a structured yet personal interaction, in which you will find me to be warm, interested, imaginative, and curious. The work involves clarifying and questioning your assumptions, suspending judgment, and closely considering your feelings and experiences. I aim to provide a safe and open environment in which anything can be explored in words. I pay close attention not only to what you say, but also to how you say it and to what you do not say. Engaging in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis promotes awareness, reflection, and change; you can learn to live in a creative and playful manner while developing the capacity to know and realistically and maturely meet your own needs. I work with a range of people—men and women, younger and older, straight and LGBTQI.
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Psychotherapy

Therapy is typically scheduled with sessions once or twice a week. People make use of therapy for many constructive reasons. Some need help in the midst of a crisis, while some want to address more continuous emotional difficulties such as depression, anxiety, self-esteem, sexual issues, eating disorders, identity questions, and grieving. Others are seeking to come to terms with painful or traumatic personal histories.
 
Perhaps you recognize that despite your best efforts you are stuck in repetitive, distressing patterns that prevent you from feeling satisfied and reaching full potential in your intimate relationships or career. Therapy can be very helpful when you’ve hit a wall trying to deal with a problem on your own. Sometimes you're stuck because it’s hard to see the roots of your own difficulties and you need someone who is able to help you to expand what you can see via a collaborative, creative endeavor. Engaging in therapy is a practice that can progressively lead to a deepening understanding, personal transformation, and greater fulfillment in your personal life.
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Psychoanalysis​

The benefits of self-discovery and growth increase greatly with more active personal involvement. Psychoanalysis is a unique form of intensive psychotherapy with sessions scheduled 3-5 times per week, typically making use of the traditional analytic couch. The process of psychoanalysis depends on a safe, confidential relationship with an analyst, a relationship that allows emotional dilemmas to come to light in all their richness and complexity. Within this deeper relationship, we work together to grasp the deeper meanings of your experience through exploration of emotional reactions, thoughts, memories, dreams, images, and bodily sensations. The frequency of sessions offers a unique opportunity to access deeper layers of personal experience and to truly process them for the first time. Usually people find using the analytic couch allows them to speak more freely and become more open to themselves, thereby increasing the potential for self-knowledge and personal change.

​Psychoanalysis fosters profound personal development and increased freedom from unsatisfying and painful modes of living. While built upon the pioneering work of Freud, modern and innovative analysts have accepted that no single theory fully accounts for the complexities of being human and living a life. Contemporary psychoanalysis has continued to evolve and improve its effectiveness by integrating new findings from attachment theory, infant, child and adult development, and, more recently, neuroscience. Psychoanalysis is practiced internationally and is now in one of its most advanced, lively, and creative stages in its 100 years of history.