Services

Individual Therapy

Perhaps you have found yourself feeling chronically depressed, anxious, or lost in life. Maybe you have struggled with trauma or other experiences, thoughts, and feelings you fear nobody would understand. You might wrestle with patterns in your life and relationships that you just can’t seem to change.

Individual therapy involves meeting regularly, usually once per week for 45 minute sessions, to explore your thoughts, feelings, memories, experiences, and relationships together. I will listen, ask questions, share ideas, and generally use my expertise to help you heal and grow in the ways you are looking for.

Part of the magic of therapy comes from the trusting relationship formed between the therapist and client. I enjoy working with people who are curious and thoughtful, and who desire not just new insights into their mind, but also a new way of experiencing themselves and others. I look forward to seeing what we can discover together.

Couple & Relationship Therapy

Intimate and close relationships are often a crucible in which we experience intense and powerful feelings, longings, peaks, and valleys. Whether your relationship is going smoothly, struggling, or in crisis, therapy can help improve your ability to address challenges, face decisions, reduce suffering, and expand joy.

We will work together to tease apart the interactions, patterns, and cycles that can create difficulties in the relationship. Depending on your specifics, we might explore a variety of topics in our sessions, such as communication patterns, emotions, boundaries, relationship and individual histories, family dynamics, intimacy, and sexuality.

I focus on helping couples (as well as polyamorous or 2+ relationships) build mutual understanding and empathy for each person’s feelings and experiences. As we learn more about how each person’s feelings and behaviors impact the other(s), we will identify ways to shift problematic patterns and foster increased safety and closeness.

Psychoanalytic Therapy

Psychoanalytic therapy is a specialized form of therapy designed to create deep, meaningful, and often transformative experiences. As with any form of therapy, we will seek to build a relationship of trust, safety, curiosity, and respect. I will want to get to know you, the whole you, as accurately and fully as I can. We will work together to bring insight and healing to parts of you that may have remained outside of your awareness or control. This often results in significant growth and an increased sense of agency in life.

“Psychoanalytic” refers to a family of psychological theories and therapeutic techniques that, truthfully, I incorporate into all of the therapy work I do. The distinction I make here is that psychoanalytic therapy sessions are often two or even three times per week, or may involve longer (ie: 90 minute) sessions. The overall course of therapy may also be longer than some other types of therapy.

This extra time allows us to dig deeper and focus on addressing the roots of your challenges. These often involve our formative and important relationships, our complex and often conflicting emotional landscape, our experiences of overt or covert trauma, as well as aspects of ourselves we may not be fully conscious of, and that become easier for us to see and engage with through the more frequent meetings.

If you are unsure whether traditional individual therapy or psychoanalytic therapy would be right for you, please feel free to schedule a consultation call with me and I would be happy to help you explore your options.

I offer video therapy as an option for clients whose location or schedule makes in-person sessions infeasible, or those who are not vaccinated for Covid-19.

Although telehealth has been shown to be just as effective overall compared to traditional in-person sessions, the experience may feel a bit different. On the one hand, you lose the sense of embodied presence that comes from being in a room with another person. However, you gain convenience and accessibility, as well as the opportunity to allow the therapist to see a little slice of your world through your camera.

In order for video therapy to be effective you will need to have a quiet, private place to be during sessions. You will also need a strong broadband internet connection suitable for video streaming. Although you can connect over your phone, for best results I recommend using a computer or larger-screen tablet.