My psychotherapeutic approach integrates Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Depth Psychology. It is also deeply relational. These are among the more non-pathologizing forms of psychotherapy, meaning that attending therapy does not imply sickness due to an individual's suffering. The goal is to understand and be with emotions in a way that helps you to feel safe enough to process them directly, rather than to have the pain appear in some alternative way (i.e. psychological "symptoms"). We will work compassionately and be curious about what these symptoms are here to tell us. We will also be curious about ways you may have been encouraged to express your feelings, or not. Often, our social contexts such as our parents, relatives, friends, and partners may also have not been encouraged to express their emotions and may not be able to help us with our own. We may not yet know what to do with our overwhelming emotions and may resort to methods that unintentionally push them into the unconscious, or the body, as a storing container for later retrieval. This is our attempt at psychological survival. Through careful consideration and deep regard we explore the symptoms rising from the unconscious to be unearthed and integrated into our conscious experience, lessening and shifting our once static and burdensome symptoms. This is often experienced as an inner reclamation of our emotional worth and vitality. Depth Psychology states that the psyche's process is partly conscious, partly unconscious, and depth therapists believe that change and healing require a deeper level of processing, an inner exploration of mind and body for consciousness making to resolve current states of suffering and conflict in our lives.

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Our collaborative work may encourage and result in deep psychological growth that leads to life changing surprises and lasting changes that enrich one's life.

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This approach is well-suited for people who need support understanding themselves on a deeper level, processing difficult emotional experiences and discovering greater meaning, purpose, self-worth and creative fulfillment in their lives. We will begin to understand your individual experience, the context of your life, past and present, and the unconscious processes that may shape your life. Working together, we will create a relational space of genuine acceptance, trust, and emotional safety. I will join with you in your experience, to empathize and provide supportive holding of your emotions. We will help you develop awareness of your own emotional needs and create new ways of advocating for them. With curiosity, we will work to identify root causes for the current challenges you may be facing along with any underlying feelings related to past experiences. Relational psychotherapy provides empathic understanding and aims to build an individual's sense of self and agency, as well as patience with and trust in others. We will work to repair previous relational and developmental trauma by providing corrective emotional experiences from which to feel seen, understood and deepen a sense of personal wholeness while grieveing the hardships and losses that have occurred. This can help with transforming painful emotional experiences into opportunities for meaning making, personal development, fulfilling relationships and healing. This is truly transformative work.​