Psychoanalytic

In psychoanalytic therapy, we explore the layers of your mind and heart to uncover the roots of your struggles. Together, we'll explore your thoughts, feelings, and experiences, seeking to shed light on unconscious patterns that may be shaping your life. Through open dialogue and reflection, we'll work towards a deeper understanding of you and your challenges, paving the way for lasting change and growth.

I am trained in Freudian drive theory and psychosexual development, ego psychology, object-relational theory, and relational theory.

Psychoanalysis basically means a kind of talk therapy that helps you discover a deepest core meaning to you behaviors, emotions, and problems. Often these reasons are deep in the unconscious. We work together to help figure out what those unconscious things are so you have more control over them.

Under this umbrella falls many theories and approaches such as : object relations and modern psychoanalysis. Object relations is in a nutshell you relate to others including partners how your caregiver related to you. We all strive for perfection but it is really about being "good enough". Modern psychoanalysis is focusing on protecting from self attacks and self-sabotage. (cue Bestie Boys music). The therapist job is to have the client "say everything."

The foundation of psychology is rooted in the psychoanalytic modality. The understanding of what is subconscious and what is conscious in our experiences. Exploring the impact of subconscious thought into our conscious awareness can deepen the relationship we have with ourselves. Psychoanalytic is "talk-therapy" and making connections to what we may not understand. Exploratory psychological experiences can offer a rich self-understanding of our life experiences.

Nearly 10 years of clinical experience using Object Relations Psychotherapy.

We approach therapy through a contemporary psychoanalytic lens to understand what is being communicated through one's behaviors and understand how past experiences are influencing current relationships. As we form our relationships we have found that individuals develop deeper insight, aiding with a deeper understanding of themselves, and experiencing more lasting and sustainable relief.

Psychoanalysis theorizes that we all have an unconscious that, outside our awareness, directs many of our choices. For this reason, psychoanalysis does not just focus on an individual's behavior but also on why they engage in it. By carefully listening and interacting with the client, I will help bring unconscious or deeply buried thoughts and feelings to the conscious mind so that repressed experiences and emotions, often from childhood, can be brought to the surface and examined.

Psychoanalytic therapy focuses on understanding your are formed by both your past, and your unconscious processes. This type of therapy puts the patient at the center, and focuses on empathic atunement and listening. Through understanding who we are and how we got here, we can better understand the issues that plague us in our everyday lives. And we can learn to mourn the losses of the past and move forward, choosing a better future.

I have a PsyD degree and am a licensed psychoanalyst.

I offer existential psychotherapy. Understanding your past and how it effects your present allows you to slowly bring change to your current world.

I have a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology, with many advanced trainings in Jungian Therapy, known also as Analytical Psychology or Depth Psychology. These include Certification in Jungian Studies, and ongoing Sandplay Training from the C. G. Jung Institute. I attend weekly educational seminars in psychoanalytic counseling with Jungian Analysts in the international and local communities.

I have years of focused training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy through the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.