A space for deeper understanding and meaningful change
People come to psychotherapy for many reasons. You may be struggling with anxiety, depression, relationships, grief, or a difficult transition. You may find yourself caught in patterns that repeat despite your best efforts to change them. Or perhaps nothing is obviously wrong, yet you have a sense that there is more to understand about yourself and the way you are living.
My approach to psychotherapy is grounded in the belief that our difficulties often have meaning. The ways we respond to ourselves, to others, and to the world have been shaped over a lifetime. Some of these patterns are familiar to us; others operate largely outside our awareness.
Psychotherapy offers a place to become curious about both.
How I Work
My work is informed primarily by psychodynamic and psychoanalytic traditions, which place particular value on careful listening, the unconscious dimensions of experience, and the ways our earliest relationships continue to shape our lives.
Rather than focusing only on reducing symptoms, we may also explore what lies beneath them: recurring patterns in relationships, conflicts and feelings that are difficult to put into words, ways you have learned to protect yourself, and parts of yourself that may have had little room to be known.
The relationship that develops between therapist and client is itself an important part of this work. Over time, patterns that appear elsewhere in life can sometimes emerge within the therapeutic relationship, giving us an opportunity to understand them together in a new way.
I bring curiosity, warmth, and close attention to this process. I don't approach therapy with a predetermined idea of who you should become. My hope is to help create the conditions in which you can understand yourself more deeply, develop greater freedom in relation to longstanding patterns, and discover ways of living that feel more fully your own.
Depth, Meaning, and the Inner Life
Alongside my psychoanalytic training, my approach has been deeply influenced by many years of engagement with Jungian psychology. When it is meaningful to you, our work may make room for dreams, images, imagination, creativity, questions of meaning, and other dimensions of inner experience.
There is no single path that psychotherapy is supposed to take. The work develops through the particular relationship between two people and through careful attention to what you bring. At its best, psychotherapy can deepen our capacity to know ourselves, to relate more freely to others, and to participate more fully in our own lives.