Facing it.

People who come to work with me often feel their backs are up against a wall. Converging stresses fill them with anxiety, a relationship conflict is making them miserable, or something overwhelming has happened. Often they feel overtaken, yet again, by patterns they keep repeating: same fights with their partner, same run-ins at work. Often they can’t shake bad feelings, and keep chasing things that don’t actually make them happy. Sometimes they keep saying the wrong things, and usually there are important things they haven’t been able to say, to others or to themselves.

In psychoanalysis we treat these painful moments as opportunities. The best way to get over feeling bad is to go through it, but it’s not the easy way. It’s heavy lifting and few people would do it if there was another way that actually worked. But when we are finally ready to stop running and go to work on what’s troubling us, life usually starts getting better.

I love my work. I work alongside clients and do psychoanalytic therapy with a warm, down-to-earth approach that has been developed through many years of experience and intensive doctoral and post-doctoral training, and is grounded in the most current scientific research. Most of my clients are professionals under multiple, colliding pressures, facing—or needing to face—a mid-life crisis. We work with the practical problems life is presenting, and we often come up against the ways that early trauma has shaped repetitive, counter-productive habits—and find that working through trauma builds authenticity and core strengths, and uncovers pathways to a better life.

Teletherapy in New York, California and Oregon.