Services
SERVICES
1) Psychotherapy:
In therapy, we will meet regularly, one-on-one. Sessions are usually 45 minutes long, and typically we will meet either once or twice a week. You can come to therapy if you are working on a specific problem, or a range of difficulties. Sometimes people come to therapy for a short time to work on a more goal-directed problem, and others come with a wider desire to address multiple concerns or ways-of-being, so therapy can be long-term as well. Throughout our work together, we will continue to be mindful of what you need and how your changing needs are being met.
2) Psychoanalysis:
Psychoanalysis often has a bad reputation! People often think of it as "old school" and believe it simply means laying down on the couch while a Freudian-like person stares at you! I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to do that either.
Contemporary psychoanalysis, which is how I practice, is much more human and connected than that. Psychoanalysis is a kind of psychotherapy where we meet more intensively, from 4-5 times per week. We would do many of the same things we would do in therapy, but analysis allows for more time and space to deepen our understanding of your inner life and the relational world you inhabit. Having this extra time allows for us to reach places in you that might not otherwise surface. Like exercising at the gym, you'll get a lot more out of it if you go multiple times a week instead of once a week. And having the more intensive involvement that psychoanalysis provides can be an incredible support and agent of change.
Particularly when facing long-standing relational problems, or other problems that feel entrenched in your life, psychoanalysis can provide traction to produce lasting change in a way that other therapies may not be able to accomplish.
There is never any pressure to do psychoanalysis instead of therapy. Most people come to therapy and decide to add analysis over time if doing so seems like it would beneficial. We would assess together whether or not you are someone who would benefit from this more intensive approach.
3) Couples therapy:
I also provide couples therapy. There are many reasons you and your partner might come to seek help. You may want to come for premarital counseling, maybe you need help working on how to love each other better, maybe you have struggles in your sexual life, or maybe you would like to end your relationship and need help with letting go. There are lots of reasons you might come, and I'm happy to hear each one of them and work with you in addressing your concerns. I am LGBT friendly, so couples of all types-- gay or straight (or a little in between) are all welcome here.
1) Psychotherapy:
In therapy, we will meet regularly, one-on-one. Sessions are usually 45 minutes long, and typically we will meet either once or twice a week. You can come to therapy if you are working on a specific problem, or a range of difficulties. Sometimes people come to therapy for a short time to work on a more goal-directed problem, and others come with a wider desire to address multiple concerns or ways-of-being, so therapy can be long-term as well. Throughout our work together, we will continue to be mindful of what you need and how your changing needs are being met.
2) Psychoanalysis:
Psychoanalysis often has a bad reputation! People often think of it as "old school" and believe it simply means laying down on the couch while a Freudian-like person stares at you! I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to do that either.
Contemporary psychoanalysis, which is how I practice, is much more human and connected than that. Psychoanalysis is a kind of psychotherapy where we meet more intensively, from 4-5 times per week. We would do many of the same things we would do in therapy, but analysis allows for more time and space to deepen our understanding of your inner life and the relational world you inhabit. Having this extra time allows for us to reach places in you that might not otherwise surface. Like exercising at the gym, you'll get a lot more out of it if you go multiple times a week instead of once a week. And having the more intensive involvement that psychoanalysis provides can be an incredible support and agent of change.
Particularly when facing long-standing relational problems, or other problems that feel entrenched in your life, psychoanalysis can provide traction to produce lasting change in a way that other therapies may not be able to accomplish.
There is never any pressure to do psychoanalysis instead of therapy. Most people come to therapy and decide to add analysis over time if doing so seems like it would beneficial. We would assess together whether or not you are someone who would benefit from this more intensive approach.
3) Couples therapy:
I also provide couples therapy. There are many reasons you and your partner might come to seek help. You may want to come for premarital counseling, maybe you need help working on how to love each other better, maybe you have struggles in your sexual life, or maybe you would like to end your relationship and need help with letting go. There are lots of reasons you might come, and I'm happy to hear each one of them and work with you in addressing your concerns. I am LGBT friendly, so couples of all types-- gay or straight (or a little in between) are all welcome here.