A life that doesn’t quite fit.

The people I work with have tried the obvious things already, and they’ve often tried therapy before. Something is still missing.

Where it shows up. Feeling stuck, anxious a lot, distant from others. Raising their voices or not speaking up, moving too fast through the day, moving too slow with a hard conversation. Overwhelmed by episodes of anxiety or anger, or worn-down and empty.

Speeding up and using the wrong solutions, again and again. Repeating patterns keep taking over: the same fights with their spouse or living like roommates, the same intrusive, critical voices in their heads, the same grim feelings when they wake up every morning. 

Let’s slow down and work the problem. This is where psychoanalysis starts: we slow down where it hurts and treat it as an opportunity. When we can finally stop running and look straight at the core of the problem, life usually starts getting better.

Maybe you’re ready. I offer psychoanalytic therapy informed by contemporary research in trauma, and cognitive-behavioral tools. We start with the practical problems that life presents, and, staying with them, we work out practical solutions. We also unearth the ways early trauma, and what you simply didn’t get in childhood, have shaped repetitive, automatic, counter-productive habits.

Working them through, we find your grounded presence with others, your buried freedom to love your family and friends, your ability to laugh while you’re doing difficult things. We find what’s been missing.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist.

Teletherapy in New York, California and Oregon.