How We Work

People rarely arrive to my consultation room with just one problem.

A relationship keeps repeating itself. Success does not feel the way it was supposed to. Anxiety, anger, loneliness, or dissatisfaction persists despite understanding it intellectually. Sometimes life is going well, but there is a growing sense that something important has been left unattended.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy creates room to better understand the patterns, relationships, conflicts, defenses, and experiences that shape the way you live.

The purpose of this work is greater freedom in what you are able to feel, choose, tolerate, pursue, and change.

This is psychotherapy meant to deepen over time.

Rather than organizing treatment around a predetermined number of sessions, we follow the work as it develops. What begins as a particular problem often opens into a broader understanding of relationships, identity, ambition, intimacy, meaning, and the kind of life you want to build.

For many people, that means working together over months or years.

The continuity matters. Over time, patterns become easier to see, difficult material becomes possible to approach, and therapy itself becomes a place where new capacities can develop.

Good psychotherapy cannot be reduced to a protocol.

Different people need different things at different times. At times the work may be exploratory and reflective. At others it may be direct, challenging, practical, or focused on a decision that needs to be made now.

The larger aim remains the same: to understand you well enough that the work can respond to the person rather than requiring the person to fit the treatment.