I listen and speak in ways that invite you to reflect more deeply about your experience. In an atmosphere of radical curiosity, patterns of experience can be named and shifted in ways that add up over time. While I respect the part of you that wants to change, I also recognize there’s a part of you that wants to stay the same—and probably for worthwhile reasons that merit attention.

To complicate matters, the very symptoms that cause pain are, at other times, a source of vitality and expansion—self-defeating tendencies seem to be interwoven with creative growth edges. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, unlike other forms of psychotherapy, explores these paradoxes as they come alive in the flesh-and-blood therapeutic relationship. Genuine learning comes from emotional experience.

Because each individual (and analytic relationship) is one of a kind, each person needs something unique from their therapist that is impossible to predict beforehand. No clinical theory or model fits a person perfectly. I appreciate that every person is embedded within specific social, political and cultural contexts. Ongoing adjustments, therefore, are made as the process develops, interactions become understood, and new meanings are created together.