Approach
Life presents us with pain and conflict that we have trouble navigating on our own. Often we find ourselves in repetitive experiences, feelings, scenarios, and relationships that seem to continue, without having a way to understand them. Therapy is a space for all aspects of our lives to be explored— increasing self-reflection, growth, and curiosity around our lived experience.
My approach to therapy relies on a contemporary relational, psychoanalytic, psychodynamic framework. Simply put, this means that we will pay attention, together, to your ways of relating and responding, to yourself and others. This depth-oriented approach works towards increasing self-understanding and the ability to navigate emotional distress and conflict. We will address how it is you have come to be you, and how this impacts your life and relationships to self and others.
Areas of Interest:
Anxiety, depression, and other emotional difficulties
Relationships: partnership, marriage, divorce, sexual intimacy, family
Career and work: high achieving / functioning
Mid-life transition
Grief
Theoretical Position:
Contemporary psychoanalytic (drawing on Relational, Self, Interpersonal, two-person models)
Systemic: societal and cultural context
Existential and Eclectic