Approach
I work with individual and couples using a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective. Together, we will attend to the issues you would like to address, while also holding close attention to your internal experience and to the context of your life, including formative experiences when you were developing your sense of self and how you learned to be in the world. Generally, we will also notice how the themes of your life outside the therapy are also present in the therapy relationship and experience itself.
We experience our lives and relationships not only through words and thoughts, but also through sensations, images, and kinesthetic impulses. Bringing attention to all these realms of experience expands the psychotherapy process. My background and extensive training in somatic forms of psychotherapy (dance/movement therapy), as well as in Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) infuses my work with close attention to both physical experience and the multiplicity of the mind.
While each of us is completely unique, as human beings we are also so very similar to each other in many basic ways. We all need relationships that include attention, care, love. We all have the capacity for joy, passion, hate, rage, fear and the multitude of other feeling states. We dream, sometimes remembering our dreams and often not. Each mind is multiplicity, never only one thing, so each of us contains multitudes of self states, and often find that we are in conflict with ourselves, holding seemingly contradictory feelings or thoughts at any given moment. In the therapy relationship, we inevitably each bring the full range of who we each are, so no two therapies will look exactly alike.