Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a depth-oriented approach that produces lasting change. Your therapist will work with you to cultivate the trust and alliance necessary to do this courageous work. Our approach supports you to consider the many influences on your life - historical, cultural, present, behavioral, and emotional. You will gain new insights, learn to examine problems from different vantages, cultivate acceptance of yourself and your experience, and nurture the curiosity and confidence that will guide you.

For Teens

  • Therapy helps teens to foster curiosity about themselves, their values, and their motivations - preparing them to plan for adult life and build the confidence to launch.

  • Weekly sessions offer space to build coping skills for daily life, language for expressing feelings and advocating for needs, and insight into who they are becoming.

  • Psychoanalytic work empowers teens to build their capacity for creativity, exploration, and play.

  • Many teens face the simultaneous task of stretching away from their early relationships and deepening into new ones. Our relational approach guides them in the process.

  • Upon request, and with respect for teens’ privacy, we offer parent consultation sessions that educate parents on the changing needs and roles that are part of adolescent life.

For Adults

  • You the way in treatment. We listen deeply and help guide you as you attune to what is important and where you are stuck and in conflict.

  • Therapy will help you to deepen your curiosity about yourself, your experience, and others so that we can get to the root of how you became you and where you might go now.

  • We listen both for patterns of experience, thinking and feeling. We offer reflections and interpretations both on what is said and what is unsaid.

  • We help you to tolerate uncertainty and the unknown so that something new can emerge.

For Children (6-12 years old)

  • Play therapy provides a space for children to learn and develop in the ways that work best for them - multi-sensory, relational, child-led, consistent, and energetic.

  • Children use their natural language for emotional expression - play. The therapist supports them recognize their feelings, core conflicts, needs, and growing capacity to express all of this in words.

  • Play therapy build’s children’s capacity for emotional expression, negotiating in relationships, coping with big feelings, and solving problems in ways that generalize to life outside of therapy.

  • Parents meet monthly with the therapist for consultation - collaborating and sharing expertise to support the child.