Individual Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a tool for understanding. When people experiencing challenges in relationships and within their families or struggle with self-esteem, identity, and depression start psychotherapy, we tend to uncover that these challenges are not new. Instead, these issues have typically been challenging to resolve because of their hold on a person’s life—the roots spread wide and deep. Because of this, we need to understand their scope first, proceeding forward with care and intentionality.
“Saying everything,” or putting all your thoughts, feelings, and experiences into words in the therapy room, is the first step to delving deep. Speaking freely is a crucial part of the process, and I work to create a safe environment that allows you to do so. Through this, we learn about the narratives that no longer fit, frustrating behaviors that cause more harm than good, and the endlessly repeated storylines. Together, we start to see patterns in what was once a tangled jumble of symptoms.
At times, therapy can involve examining the wounded parts of our lives and ourselves, which can mean feeling the pain or discomfort of these wounds. Re-experiencing these painful parts in a safe, nonjudgmental, and trusting therapeutic relationship starts the process of enabling you to have a different experience of them. Working deeply in this way can take time, but it is ultimately the most rewarding. Along the way, I equip you with new emotional tools better suited to who you are today.
When we learn to listen carefully, our emotions guide us toward solutions, even if they once felt like the problem. A deeper understanding of yourself makes it possible to make different choices and change the outdated ideas or beliefs that stand in the way. On the other side of them, you become free to lead a happier, richer, and more fulfilling life.
Approach
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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.
My role is to help 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 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