Psychotherapy
My psychotherapeutic approach integrates Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Depth Psychology and is deeply relational. I approach your suffering with compassion and curiosity, seeking to understand it within the context of your life. Your feelings, struggles, and ways of protecting yourself each have a history that deserves thoughtful attention.
Together, we will explore what your distress may be expressing and make room for feelings that have been difficult to bear. We will also consider how your emotions were received in your relationships. Were you comforted when you were hurting? Was there room for anger, sadness, vulnerability, or need? Sometimes, the people we depended on had little support for their own emotional lives and struggled to offer the understanding we needed.
When feelings become overwhelming, we find ways to get through. We may push them aside, turn away from our needs, or become disconnected from aspects of our experience. These responses can help us survive painful circumstances, while also shaping patterns that later become restrictive or burdensome. Emotional distress may be felt in our thoughts, relationships, and bodies, sometimes before we have words for what hurts.
Depth Psychology attends to both conscious experience and the unconscious dimensions of life. Feelings, memories, dreams, images, and recurring patterns can offer openings into a deeper understanding of ourselves. As we explore what emerges, experiences that once felt confusing or overwhelming may become more understandable and bearable. This work can bring a sense of inner reclamation—a renewed connection to your emotional worth, creativity, and vitality.
Our work will be collaborative, grounded in genuine acceptance, trust, and emotional safety. I will seek to understand your experience from within your perspective and help you stay with difficult feelings at a pace that respects your needs. Together, we can deepen your awareness of what you need and strengthen your ability to express and advocate for it.
Because so much of our emotional life develops in relationship, the therapeutic relationship itself can become a meaningful place for healing. Experiences of being heard, understood, and met with care can support a growing sense of self and greater freedom in how you relate to others. There is also room to grieve—to acknowledge what hurt, what was missing, and what you wish could have been different.
This approach may resonate with you if you long to understand yourself more deeply, process painful experiences, or discover greater meaning, purpose, self-worth, and creative fulfillment. Over time, our work can open possibilities for lasting change: a more compassionate relationship with yourself, more fulfilling connections with others, and a life that feels more fully your own.
Dreams
As part of my therapeutic work, I offer dream exploration and analysis. Dreams can bring us closer to feelings that are difficult to reach or put into words in waking life. Through their symbols, images, and stories, they may give form to grief, fear, longing, conflict, and possibilities we have yet to recognize.
I think of dreams as unconscious gold—something precious emerging from the depths of our inner lives. Together, we will spend time with the images that stay with you, the feelings they stir, and the memories and associations they call forth. Your personal relationship with these images is central to our exploration, and their meaning can deepen as we consider them in the context of your life.
Dreams can become valuable companions in therapy, helping us recognize recurring patterns, attend to emotional pain, and discover sources of creativity and vitality. By giving them thoughtful attention, we can cultivate a more intimate relationship with your inner world and bring its insights into the ways you live, choose, and relate.
Trauma
Traumatic experiences can touch the deepest parts of our lives—how we feel within ourselves, how we love, and whether the world feels like a place where we can safely belong. The hurt can become especially difficult to bear when it has gone unseen, when we have had to carry it alone, or when those we turned to could not recognize the depth of what happened.
Some wounds follow a single life-shattering event. Others develop quietly through repeated experiences of fear, neglect, rejection, or disconnection. Over time, these experiences can shape what we believe about our worth, what we expect from relationships, and how much of ourselves we feel safe enough to share.
At the heart of my work is the possibility of a relational home: a relationship where your experience has room to exist, where what hurt can be acknowledged, and where your feelings can be met with compassion. Being deeply understood can help us begin to bear what once felt unbearable.
Together, we will patiently explore what you have lived through and how it touches your life today. I will listen closely to your words, the feelings that accompany them, and what remains difficult to say. There is room for grief, anger, fear, tenderness, and longing. There is also room for quiet, uncertainty, and the time it takes to trust.
As our work unfolds, we can come to understand the ways you have protected yourself and attend to the needs that have waited for care. We can grieve what was lost or missing, find words for what you have carried, and help you feel more able to remain present with yourself through painful emotions. My hope is that this relationship becomes a place where you feel increasingly known and more able to live as yourself.
Healing may emerge in ordinary, deeply meaningful ways: finding words for a need you once felt you had to hide, feeling more at ease with someone you love, or discovering that you can move through a difficult feeling with greater tenderness toward yourself. You may begin to recognize when an old hurt is shaping a present experience and find more freedom to respond. There may be moments when you can receive care more fully, set a boundary with greater trust in yourself, or allow yourself to feel joy without bracing for its disappearance.
Over time, parts of yourself that have been devoted to getting through may find room to rest, play, create, and connect. You might return to something you love or discover desires that have had little space to take shape. An old hurt may still ask for care, while becoming one part of a life that holds more possibility, pleasure, and belonging.
Together, we will care for what has been wounded and listen for what is coming alive. We will make room to grieve what you needed and did not receive, while attending to the needs, hopes, and relationships that matter to you now. My hope is that you come to feel a deeper sense of belonging within yourself—and more able to inhabit a life that feels like your own.
I treat the following:
Depression
Anxiety
Trauma and PTSD
Childhood Abuse
Addiction
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Marital or relationship struggles
Self-harm
Eating disorders
Bipolar disorder
Dissociative disorders
Personality disorders
Co-dependency
People pleasing
Phobias
Identity struggles
Spiritual struggles
Feeling lost or stuck in life
Chronic burnout
Creativity blocks
Grief and loss
Dissociative disorders
Life transitions (career, divorce, sexuality)
Early childhood wounds
Religious trauma
