Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

It is a near-universal experience to become disoriented, adrift or turned around. To find oneself in a rough patch where emotions surge and courage falters, where one’s inner compass is spinning and the way forward feels obstructed or obscured.

Welcome. This is a place to pause and orient yourself, to slowly sort out where and perhaps who you are. To think and speak freely without constraints, and to be understood rather than simply heard or labeled.

People seek out psychoanalytic (“depth”) therapy for a variety of reasons. Chief among these is a hope, however faint, for more loving relationships with others and greater openness and creativity in oneself.

This kind of therapy views troubling symptoms and repetitive patterns as important messages about the state of one’s inner world – the life of the mind. It is an examination of the emotional undercurrents that inhibit us from living and loving more fully.

Our inner worlds can be a source of richness, vitality and meaning. But exploring our minds more deeply can feel somewhat daunting. To quote philosopher Robert Pirsig, “In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty, and to the enormous magnitude of questions asked.”¹

I provide a steady, attuned and thoughtful presence to help people sit with questions while gradually untangling the complicated knot of symptoms, patterns, protections and repetitions that have kept them lost or unmoored.