Who I work with
I work with adults navigating relationship difficulties, emotional struggles, and questions of identity, desire, and intimacy. What brings someone in is often a more immediate symptom or conflict, but the work may turn toward a deeper inquiry into the ways one comes to experience oneself and others.
Many are thoughtful, accomplished, and creative, outwardly composed but privately uncertain about who they are or what they want. They may find it difficult to sustain satisfying intimate relationships, feel at ease with their sexuality, or understand a persistent sense of dissatisfaction that is difficult to locate or name. This may be experienced as a disconnection from oneself or others, or as anger, loneliness, fear, or sadness that does not fully make sense.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
I work from a psychoanalytic perspective, attending to unconscious patterns and how they shape a person's experience of themselves and others. The therapeutic relationship offers a space in which what has been hard to know or put into words can gradually come into view and shift.
This work may suit those facing a specific concern, conflict, or life transition, as well as those noticing recurring patterns in relationships, emotional life, or work that feel resistant to change. Meeting weekly or twice weekly, it offers a space to reflect on present experience in light of one's history, relationships, and inner life, deepening one's understanding of what underlies persistent patterns and allowing for greater flexibility, a stronger sense of oneself, and more freedom in how one moves through the world.
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis suits those drawn to a more sustained process of self-examination, particularly when longstanding questions of identity, intimacy, desire, or meaning are central. Meeting three to four times per week, this more intensive treatment allows for deeper, more continuous engagement with unconscious life.
As the work deepens, aspects of experience that have not yet found language may begin to emerge, and entrenched ways of relating can loosen. The analytic relationship becomes a primary site of this work, where experience can be observed and take clearer form, opening greater freedom in how one relates to oneself, to others, and to one's own desires.