Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy
My academic background is in Clinical Social Work (LCSW, Ph.D.), with classical psychoanalytic training, psychoanalytic couple psychotherapy, and parent–infant psychotherapy. My work is grounded in Object Relations, shaped by infant observation, and informed by the work of Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, and contemporary psychoanalysis.
This approach attends to how early relationships shape the way we experience ourselves and others, and how these patterns quietly reappear in adult life.
In psychoanalytic work, we explore your inner world in the “here and now,” noticing how feelings and patterns shape daily life. This work creates space to meet difficult emotions, strengthen your inner voice, and deepen self-understanding, allowing suffering to soften and life to be lived with greater fullness and freedom.
Psychoanalysis is an intensive form of treatment—typically three to five times per week—that allows for sustained exploration of the inner world. It invites reflection on early experience, loss, and disappointment, and on how these continue to shape emotional life. Over time, the capacity to think, to feel, and to live with greater freedom can gradually expand. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, meeting once or twice weekly, offers the same depth of inquiry at a less intensive pace.
Therapy provides a protected space in which recurring patterns, dreams, and emotional themes can come into view. Together, we explore how earlier relationships influence present experience, how guilt or shame may limit choice, and how anxiety can narrow one’s sense of possibility. As these patterns are understood, they often soften, allowing for new ways of relating to oneself and others.
At the center of this work is the therapeutic relationship itself—a steady, thoughtful encounter in which experience can be reflected on rather than acted out. Through this process, understanding deepens, emotional life becomes more spacious, and relationships—both internal and external—can feel more alive and trustworthy.
Whether through weekly psychotherapy or the deeper immersion of psychoanalysis, the aim remains the same: greater clarity, relief from suffering, and a more authentic engagement with one’s inner and relational world.