Dan Quinn

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

Where it shows up. Anxious a lot, stuck, 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 surges of dread or anger, or worn-down and empty.

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

Slowing down to work the problem. This is where psychoanalysis starts: we pause 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 to improve.

Maybe you’re ready. I offer relational psychoanalysis informed by Jungian theory and by contemporary research in trauma. The tools and insights of cognitive-behavioral, Internal Family Systems, and EMDR and other therapies all come into play.

We start with the practical problems that life presents, and, staying with them, we work out practical solutions. We also unearth the ways early wounds, and what you simply didn’t get in childhood, have shaped repetitive, automatic, counterproductive habits.

We work them through and go looking for 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 make life fit better.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist.

Teletherapy in New York, California, and Oregon.