Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy
Exploring the Inner World
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 Ego Psychology, Object Relations, and the work of Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, and contemporary psychoanalysis.
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.
Paths to Insight
Psychoanalysis is an intensive undertaking—three to five times a week—through which the mind can be explored with depth and rigor. It is an emotional journey that asks us to mourn our illusions, to face past disappointments, and to understand the subtle traces early experience leaves within us. Through this work, the capacity to think, to love, and to live with greater freedom can gradually expand. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, meeting once or twice weekly, offers the same spirit of reflection and inquiry at a less intensive rhythm.
Therapy provides a protected space where hidden meanings can reveal themselves—through dreams, memories, and the familiar patterns that echo through daily life. Together we explore how earlier experiences quietly shape present feelings, how guilt or shame can constrict one’s choices, and how anxiety may tighten the world around us. As these patterns come into view, they can soften, shift, and ultimately make room for new ways of being.
At the heart of this work is the therapeutic relationship itself—a steady, thoughtful encounter in which the self can unfold without judgment. Here, old hurts can be worked through, and one’s inner voice can grow clearer and more trustworthy. As understanding deepens, life often begins to feel more spacious: relationships gain depth, choices grow freer, and emotional life becomes more textured and alive.
Whether through weekly psychotherapy or the deeper immersion of analysis, the aim is constant: greater clarity, relief from suffering, and a more authentic engagement with one’s inner and outer world.