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About My Clients
Like most therapists, the themes of mood, trauma and grief are pervasive in the work I do. I have a particular focus on: Discovery and conflict related to identity or sexuality Existential and socio-political burdens Aging, illness, disability and health anxiety Inhibitions related to desire and creativity
My Background and Approach
I am trained in a contemporary, relational, psychoanalytic approach to therapy. That means our sessions will feel less like a workshop or training and more like an open-ended experience. I bring my whole self, even when I am quiet. The approach is as complex as your problems are. It is based on the idea that individual symptoms are only durably relieved when the entire person – their life history, social context and body – are considered as a whole.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Individual therapy with adolescents, adults and elders: In therapy, we address the innermost, often hidden parts of ourselves. We gain more access to our emotional experience. This loosens the constraints of old patterns and allows us to shed whatever has kept us stuck in our ways. This work is sometimes painful but it is oriented, always, towards vitality. I join you in it, as a sensitive and direct listener. I welcome your messiness and darkness while being equally curious about your distinctiveness and creativity. The relationship we develop can be a space of self-observation and experimentation. The purpose is to find a greater sense of connection with ourselves and, finally, with others. Couples therapy: This work is similar, but it is even more focused on the real-time, present moment. In couples therapy, we will observe a problem in action, slow it down, and experiment with something new.