The work I do
I work with individuals and couples navigating the complexities of being human and in relationship with others.
I work with individuals who are feeling stuck, unfulfilled, anxious, depressed, lonely, losing purpose, and meaning; those who struggle with obsessive thinking, substance use, eating disorders, sexual issues, and traumatic experiences.
I work with heterosexual and same-sex couples; couples in monogamous or non-monogamous relationships, alternative and undefined relationships; couples struggling with communication, conflict, lack of desire, intimacy, affairs, sexual issues, and trauma.
Individuals
I am trained in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy. AEDP is a healing oriented, mind/body experiential therapy used to treat and transform trauma and attachment trauma. I believe in the power of building secure attachment in the therapeutic relationship which transforms personal relationships.
I am trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR) which is used to access and process traumatic experiences. I use somatic and attachment focused EMDR.
I am in a post graduate training program at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. As a training psychoanalyst, I offer psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In short, the aim of psychoanalysis is to make the unconscious conscious.
"Psychoanalysis is a lived emotional experience. Without being aware of it, they (patients) are seeking help in dreaming their undreamt and undreamable experience. Psychoanalysis most fundamentally is a therapeutic enterprise with the goal of enhancing the patient's capacity to be alive to as much as possible of the full spectrum of human experience. Coming to life emotionally is, to my mind, synonymous with becoming increasingly able to dream one's experience, which is to dream oneself into existence." -Thomas Ogden
Couples
I am trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples. EFT is a model that helps couples develop secure attachment. Couples with secure attachment feel safe, stable, and satisfied in their relationship. They are able to communicate effectively and have greater intimacy emotionally and sexually.
I am trained in the Gottman Method for couples therapy which focuses on increasing intimacy, disarming conflict, and creating greater understanding in relationships.
I use Imago couples therapy to help you understand the connection with your relationship frustrations & childhood experiences.