Psychotherapy

My thorough training informs the psychotherapy I offer and gives me the ability to listen differently and say things you may not have heard. This is the attention I provide in each of your sessions. The therapy I practice is insight-oriented, not advice-based. I use psychoanalysis techniques in all the work I do, whether psychotherapy or psychoanalysis.

These include:

• Attending to the unconscious source of your symptoms and difficulties.

• Working with your dreams, if you remember, to see what they tell us.

• Looking at how your early past is unconsciously lived in the present.

• Seeing how old feelings come alive in new relationships, even with me.

• Many of you spend your lives living out unconscious fantasies that interfere with having the life you want, fantasies that don’t seem like fantasies at all. Like: “I’m a complete failure.” “No one loves me.” “I’m doomed to be alone forever.” “I’ll never get what I want, so why should I try?”

In psychotherapy, as in psychoanalysis, I tend to the details of what you say to me, linking these to your history, and working out what’s getting in your way. Psychoanalysis allows for a more in-depth chance to understand and resolve the unconscious reasons behind your difficulties.