Areas of Practice
In individual therapy, we meet weekly (or more frequently, depending on your needs) to explore the difficulties that brought you to treatment: depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship problems, career struggles, or a general sense of feeling stuck.
Psychodynamic therapy recognizes that our current struggles often have roots in earlier experiences and patterns that operate outside our awareness. Rather than simply targeting symptoms, we work to understand what your distress might be communicating. There's no manual to follow or predetermined agenda. Instead, we create a space where you can speak freely and where we pay attention to what emerges, including feelings about the therapy itself.
Over time, this process can lead to deeper self-understanding, more satisfying relationships, and a greater sense of agency in your life.
Individual Therapy
Relationships are where our deepest needs and most profound vulnerabilities meet. In couples therapy, I help partners understand the patterns that keep them stuck, the ways past experiences shape how you relate to each other, why certain conflicts keep recurring, and what each of you might be trying to communicate beneath the surface of your arguments.
Rather than teaching communication techniques or offering quick solutions, psychodynamic couples therapy explores what's really happening between you. As you develop greater awareness of these dynamics, you can begin relating to each other in more authentic and satisfying ways. I work with couples at all stages, whether you're in crisis, feeling disconnected, or wanting to deepen your connection.
Couples Therapy
I work with teenagers (roughly ages 14-19) struggling with depression, anxiety, social difficulties, family conflict, academic pressures, or identity questions. Building trust takes time, and I work at the pace that feels right for each person. The therapy itself is confidential space for the adolescent (within appropriate limits), while parents are typically involved at the beginning and periodically throughout treatment.
My goal is to help adolescents develop greater self-understanding during this formative period: to make sense of their feelings, understand their patterns, and find more authentic ways of being themselves in the world.
Adolescent Therapy
For those seeking more intensive work, I offer psychoanalysis multiple times per week (typically three to five sessions). As a candidate in psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), I provide this treatment under supervision.
Psychoanalysis is the most in-depth form of psychological treatment available. Meeting several times a week creates a unique opportunity to observe patterns as they unfold in real time and to develop a depth of self-understanding that can be genuinely transformative. This isn't a quick process, but for many people, it offers the most meaningful and lasting change.