Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

I offer psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis—depth-oriented treatments that focus on understanding emotional life, relational patterns, and unconscious processes that shape how a person experiences themselves and others. This work is collaborative and reflective, and it is oriented toward lasting psychological change rather than short-term symptom relief alone.

What Is Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis?

In this form of treatment, understanding tends to develop gradually rather than all at once.

Clinicians trained in psychoanalytic work are grounded in the major therapeutic approaches—including behavioral, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic modalities—and draw on this knowledge thoughtfully. Rather than applying a single technique or model, treatment is tailored to the individual and to what emerges over time.

Decades of psychotherapy research consistently show that the quality of the therapeutic relationship is central to effective treatment. Across all forms of psychotherapy, establishing an atmosphere of safety and trust, listening with care and curiosity, and approaching the patient with respect, dignity, and ethical rigor are essential foundations of meaningful work.

 

"The capacity to love and to work." - Sigmund Freud

 

How Psychoanalytic Therapy Works

While many therapies focus primarily on symptom management, behavior change, or coping strategies, psychoanalytic therapy is oriented toward understanding and expanding awareness. Rather than teaching techniques to control or override difficult thoughts and feelings, this approach invites curiosity about their emotional meaning and origins, including aspects of experience that may not be immediately conscious.

By addressing these deeper layers of emotional life, change tends to be more enduring and integrated, affecting not only symptoms, but also how a person thinks, relates, and experiences themselves over time.

  • This work takes shape through a relationship that allows difficult experiences to be understood as they are lived.

    Core Elements of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

    • A strong, collaborative therapeutic relationship grounded in safety, trust, and respect

    • Emphasis on curiosity, reflection, and freedom of thought

    • Attention to unconscious processes that shape emotional life and relationships

    • Exploration of recurring emotional and relational patterns as meaningful rather than random or pathological, including how these patterns often emerge within the therapeutic relationship itself. People tend to relate to a therapist in ways that resemble how they relate to others in their lives, which allows us to notice, understand, and work with these patterns as they happen, in real time, within a safe and supportive setting

    • A consistent and reliable treatment frame that allows psychological work to deepen over time

    • An emphasis on insight, emotional integration, and lasting change rather than symptom relief alone

  • Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis may be helpful for people who:

    • Feel anxious, depressed, empty, or emotionally overwhelmed, even if they appear high functioning in their daily lives

    • Struggle with self-doubt, impostor syndrome, shame, or low self-worth, and feel unsure why these experiences persist

    • Carry private worries, secrets, or unresolved experiences they have never felt able to talk about openly

    • Experience relationship difficulties, including problems with intimacy, repeated conflicts, loneliness, or feeling unseen or misunderstood

    • Notice repeating patterns in work or relationships—such as people-pleasing, self-criticism, fear of closeness, or conflict avoidance—without fully understanding why

    • Want a space that goes beyond advice or coping strategies and instead offers a thoughtful, responsive therapeutic relationship focused on their unique emotional world

    • Are curious about themselves and want to understand not only what they feel, but why they feel the way they do

    • Are seeking lasting change, greater emotional freedom, and a more compassionate and realistic understanding of themselves and others

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