Clinical Psychologist
Psychotherapy for a Deeper
Understanding of Yourself
People often come to therapy seeking relief from anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, or a painful period in your life. These struggles deserve care in their own right. But they can also invite us to become curious about something deeper: the emotional and relational patterns that shape how we experience ourselves, other people, and the world around us.
I work with adults who want more than simply managing symptoms. Together, we can make space for experiences that may be difficult to understand alone, listening not only to what you think, but also to what you feel, what you notice in your body, and what emerges within the therapy relationship itself.
Anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, grief, trauma, and periods of transition can make life profoundly difficult. Naturally, we want relief.
But sometimes our symptoms also point toward parts of our experience that have not yet found another way to be known.
Therapy can offer a place to slow down and become curious about what is happening beneath the surface. We may explore recurring patterns in relationships, experiences from earlier in life that continue to shape the present, emotions that are difficult to name or tolerate, and ways you have learned to protect yourself that may no longer serve you as they once did.
Understanding these patterns intellectually can be valuable, but understanding alone does not always change them. Psychotherapy can create an opportunity to experience yourself differently, in the presence of another person, and gradually allow new possibilities to emerge.
More Than Symptom Relief
What to Expect
We can begin with what you bring, where you are in the immediacy of your life. That may include something happening in your life now, a relationship that repeatedly becomes painful, anxiety that seems to come from nowhere, depression that has resisted explanation, an emotion suddenly arising in the room, or simply the feeling that something important is happening inside you that you cannot quite put into words.
We can become curious about these experiences together. My work is attentive to the connection between mind and body, and to emotional experience as it arises in the present.
I also pay close attention to what develops between us. The patterns that cause difficulty elsewhere in life sometimes find their way into therapy, where they can be experienced within a relationship that is safe enough to examine them together.
Over time, experiences that once felt confusing, overwhelming, or inaccessible can become more understandable and more available for reflection, choice, creativity, and change.
Psychotherapy for Therapists and Mental Health Professionals
I have a particular interest in working with psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, and others whose professional lives involve caring for the emotional lives of other people
Being a therapist can create an unusual dilemma. We spend years developing the capacity to understand, contain, and care for the experiences of others, while our own inner lives remain every bit as complicated, vulnerable, and sometimes bewildering.
My work with clinicians is informed by decades of clinical practice, psychodynamic and psychoanalytic study, teaching and consultation with other therapists, and my personal experience of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Whether you are struggling with depression or anxiety, relationships, professional burnout, questions of identity or meaning, or something more difficult to name, therapy can provide a place where your professional role can recede and your own experience can take up the room.
Making Room for Meaning
For some people, emotional life and spiritual life cannot be neatly separated.
Questions of meaning, purpose, mortality, connection, spiritual experience, or relationship to something larger may naturally arise alongside psychological struggles. When these dimensions are important to you, they are welcome in our work.
I do not approach psychotherapy from a particular religious or spiritual doctrine. Rather, I regard spiritual experience as one of the many ways human beings encounter meaning, mystery, suffering, transformation, and belonging.
Therapy can make room for those questions without us reducing them either to psychological symptoms or to spiritual explanations.
Experience and Approach
For nearly three decades, I have worked as a clinical psychologist with adults, adolescents, children, couples, and families. My work has been shaped by extensive study and training in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, including object relations and Jungian approaches.
Over the years, I have also taught and consulted with other mental health professionals. These experiences have deepened my respect for psychotherapy as a process that asks for more than the application of technique or formula. The work is grounded in knowledge and experience, but it also depends upon curiosity, attention, and the particular relationship that develops between two people.
I bring what I have learned over these years into the room, but I do not assume that expertise means already knowing who you are. Understanding emerges through the work we do together.
Beginning
Finding the right therapist is a personal decision, and it can be difficult to know from a website whether someone will feel like the right fit.
If something here resonates with you, you are welcome to contact me. We can have an initial conversation about what brings you to therapy, what you are looking for, and whether working together seems to make sense.