Psychoanalytic therapy for anxiety and stress, relationship conflicts, and trauma.

You’ve tried the obvious solutions, and maybe you’ve tried therapy before, too. Something is still not working.

Teletherapy in New York, California and Oregon

Therapy should feel like sitting around a kitchen table...

talking to someone you feel comfortable with, about the things that bother you the most.

Relational psychoanalysis informed by Jungian theory and contemporary trauma research, drawing on tools from CBT, Internal Family Systems and EMDR.

Always in a hurry, sometimes flooded with dread.

When we slow down, one session at a time, and look together at the core of the problem, life usually starts getting better.

Having the same arguments with your partner, or living like roommates.

Raising your voice, or not speaking up when you need to.

Isolation, holding people at a distance.

We can combine a skills approach with finding old hurts that might get in the way with others.

Compulsions like food, social media, porn or drugs are trying to make you feel better, but they keep you from outgrowing what’s really bothering you.

We can look at what’s behind it, and find better ways to feel more like yourself.

That still crop up, past experiences that still shape the present.

Needs that went unmet earlier in life.

Trauma requires a comprehensive, multi-pronged approach. We use the tools that research supports.

like strategizing what to do when the emotion wallops you, or figuring out a better way to say what you need to say.

to go deeper into the underlying patterns and early wounds that keep the patterns stubbornly repeating.