Individual Psychotherapy
Therapy is a tool for gaining clarity, making changes, and learning how to move forward when feeling stuck. When making changes, it’s crucial to look further than what’s visible on the surface. I work by helping you better understand how your thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, along with external forces, impact your day-to-day life.
My style is warm, interactive, and empowering. I work by helping clients delve deeper and put language to their innermost thoughts, feelings, and experiences. I believe growth, change, and healing can involve joy, empathy, and compassion, and these are essential components of our work together.
Often, people are burdened by narratives they didn’t write or storylines that no longer serve them. These create obstacles to growth and prevent them from making changes, which leads to feeling stuck and hopeless. As miserable or frustrating as it can feel, this is a great place to start therapy.
Using a psychodynamic lens, I work with people to examine their relationships, belief systems, past experiences, and behaviors. We gain clarity on where certain thoughts and behavior patterns come from and see if we can understand how the obstacles formed and where they get stuck. With a deeper understanding of yourself, it becomes easier to let go of the old storylines and move beyond the obstacles, creating space for people to lead a happier, less burdensome, and more joyful life.
Approach to Individual Psychotherapy
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There’s no one way to do therapy. It depends on what you’re looking to work on and the style of the therapist.
I understand my role as helping people develop an emotional language that allows them to put words to their feelings and experiences.
I have a holistic and integrative approach to psychotherapy, which means that I incorporate a variety of approaches to best meet your needs. This includes working primarily from a psychodynamic, interpersonal, and relational perspective and integrating psychoanalytic and attachment-based techniques.
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I work with patients using psychodynamic, relational, and psychoanalytic frameworks.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy focuses on the unconscious thoughts and feelings that determine their choices, behaviors, and moods. It looks at a patient's history and how their family, systems, and experiences have shaped who they are today. Using this framework and their life’s historical context, I help patients to understand their current reality and use this intellectual clarity to make different choices.
Relational therapy uses the interaction between a patient and therapist to explore the impact of early and current relationships on a person's sense of self and well-being. By studying the interaction between us, we can help the patient understand patterns in all their relationships.
Modern psychoanalysis is based on the idea that factors outside of a person’s awareness influence their thoughts and actions. In treatment, we explore how these unconscious factors affect patients today and how they developed over time in their history. Working using these ideas involves an intellectual understanding of what a person has experienced and re-experiencing some aspects of their inner, hidden world in treatment with me. Together, we create a new experience so that the patient experiences deep emotional change alongside new intellectual awarenesses.
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ADHD
Anxiety, Worry, and Stress
Codependency
Depression
Difficulties with Emotions
Eating Disorders
Family Conflicts
Grief
Interpersonal Challenges
Life Transitions
LGBTQIA+
Mood Dysregulation
Personality Disorders
Relationship Issues
Self-Esteem
Sexual Abuse/Trauma
Trauma and PTSD