Therapy Services

I provide individual psychotherapy grounded in the psychodynamic tradition. This means I am taking an active, engaged, empathic therapeutic stance in working with you. I will encourage you to say whatever is on your mind or whatever it is your feeling to allow for emotional exploration, re-experiencing of important feelings, thoughts, and memories, in addition to exploring fantasies, wishes, an dreams. We want to make the unconscious conscious to promote different ways of relating to yourself and others, and different ways of adapting to life’s difficulties. With an increased, sustained experience of realistic self-agency and freedom comes new choices and strivings towards your most authentic self.

I often explain this type of work with the following vignette: Let’s say you come to me, saying there’s this stormy raincloud hanging over your head. In addition to understand why the raincloud is there, I want to help you understand the landscape of your mind to see the weather patterns, and for us to slowly “terraform” the landscape of your mind through trying new behaviors and identifying patterns and alternative, more adaptive perceptions, with the goal being the change the kind of weather you experience in daily life. And sometimes, we will need to work on “using an umbrella” through targeting specific symptoms or developing certain skills.

It is worth noting that there are no specific guarantees for specific outcomes with individual psychotherapy.

I am well-trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), a humanistic, evidence-based approach that is rooted in attachment theory. The goal of EFCT is to create or rebuild a resilient, secure relational bond - this may also include addressing and healing past major relationship traumas or wounds (e.g., infidelity, threats of ending a relationship or divorce, financial betrayals, etc.).

EFCT centers emotions as agents fo change, paying attention to the messages our emotions, affect, and/or body language gives to our partner, and how we interpret and respond to our partner’s messages too. Through slowing down, uncovering our emotional messages, and identifying recurring patterns of interactions and conflict, there is a profound opportunity to heal and grow in your relationship by moving from insecure connection (which may show up as engaging in emotional pursuing/criticism or withdrawing) to secure connection with one another.