Up against it.

The executives who come to work with me often feel they’re pinned against a wall.

Pressure from the board. Pressure from a deal that fell apart at work. Pressure from their partner at home.

Raising their voice, moving too fast with a new direction, moving too slow with a hard conversation.

We often find they’re overtaken by repeating patterns: the same fights with their spouse, the same hiring mistakes, the same grim feelings when they wake up every morning. Chasing the wrong things. Avoiding what needs to be faced.

This is where psychoanalysis starts: we slow down at the pain points and treat them as opportunities. 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 to business leaders informed by contemporary research in trauma. We start with the practical problems that life presents, and, staying with them, we often find the ways early trauma and childhood deficits have shaped repetitive, counter-productive habits. Working them through, we find your grounded presence in meetings, your buried capacity to love your family, your ability to laugh while you’re doing difficult things. We find you.

Licensed Clinical Psychologist.

Teletherapy in New York, California and Oregon.