My Approach

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is based on the understanding that much of emotional life takes place outside of immediate awareness. Patterns of feeling, expectation, and relationship that developed earlier in life often continue to shape present experience in ways that are not fully conscious.

Therapy offers an opportunity to explore these patterns in a setting that allows for reflection, curiosity, and careful attention to emotional experience as it unfolds over time.

How the Work Develops

Rather than focusing solely on symptom relief, psychoanalytic psychotherapy seeks to understand the underlying meanings and conflicts that contribute to emotional difficulty. Through ongoing conversation, thoughts and feelings that may previously have felt confusing or disconnected can begin to take clearer form.

The therapeutic relationship itself becomes an important part of this process, offering a space in which familiar patterns can be recognized and understood differently.

Working with Couples

In addition to individual psychotherapy, I work with couples who are experiencing conflict, distance, or recurring difficulties in communication. Couples therapy provides an opportunity to understand the emotional patterns that develop between partners and how each person’s history and expectations shape the relationship.

The aim is not simply to resolve disagreements, but to develop a deeper understanding of the dynamics that give rise to them. As in individual work, attention is given to emotional experience as it unfolds within the therapeutic space, allowing new ways of relating to emerge over time.

The Pace of Therapy

This form of therapy values patience and depth. Change tends to emerge gradually, as understanding develops and new ways of experiencing oneself and others become possible.

There is no expectation to arrive with clear goals or answers. The work begins wherever you find yourself.