As a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, I’m interested in your own experience, which is both singular and interwoven with the world around you. I believe the ways that you suffer are also the ways you learned how to survive, and that it is through examining the nature of these automatic patterns that you can discover new possibilities.
My approach is to listen closely so I can come to learn your unique way of being. The more you understand yourself in the context of your history, the more range and agency you will have. There is freedom in discovering desire—which is why I orient myself not toward telling you what to do, but toward helping you discover what you truly want.
In the clinic, I listen for how suffering reaches across generations and pay attention to how gender, sexuality, racism, class, and other material conditions may be involved. I am interested in your whole self—my job is not to deliver a diagnosis or reduce you to a set of symptoms. When latent aspects of your history are discovered, you will have more freedom to choose how to live, and greater access to desire, vitality, and connection.
