I provide depth psychotherapy to adults and couples. My style as a therapist is warm, embodied, and active. My therapeutic approach is psychodynamic, relational, and attachment-based.
The foundation of my training is psychodynamic and psychoanalytic. That means I actively listen for how the unconscious mind can apply assumptions to our daily lives based on past experiences -- especially from our younger, more formative years. I utilize psychoanalytic approaches to therapy by working to understand the unconscious narrative in the background to our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
The relational aspect of my work means that I treat our relationship -- the therapeutic one -- as a real relationship that may borrow patterns from other relationships. Being able to explore your experience in the therapeutic relationship can be illuminating and transformative.
Focusing on attachment, I am interested in how you have experienced safety and flexibility (or not) in your relationships, and how you may approach relationships based on past relationship experiences that shaped you, especially with caregivers. These attachment patterns tend to emerge again and again. Some attachment patterns can produce barriers to having fulfilling experiences in relationships today.
areas of specialty
- depression
- anxiety
- trauma
- boundaries
- anger
- narcissism
- family issues
- relationships
- life transitions
- emotional regulation
- passive aggression
- intergenerational trauma
- multi-ethnic, multi-racial identification