About

Approach

Psychotherapy can be understood in many ways. For me, it is essentially a process of learning about oneself — done through an unusual kind of conversation, one that allows for a depth of reflection and emotional honesty that everyday life rarely makes room for.

My work is primarily informed by psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking — Freudian, Lacanian, object relations, relational, self-psychology — all of which, in their different ways, attempt to make the unconscious conscious. In therapy, we explore recurring emotional patterns, internal conflicts, and relational dynamics that often shape how a person experiences themselves and others, frequently without their awareness.

I do not see therapy as a space for applying a fixed theory to a person. Each person is unique, and theory is only useful insofar as it helps us understand the individual in front of us.

At times, more structured or practical interventions — CBT techniques, DBT skills, a solution-focused approach — may also be useful, depending on what the situation calls for. Different forms of psychological understanding can coexist within the same therapeutic process.

People often come to therapy with a specific problem they want to work on, only to find, in time, that something else — deeper, older, still unresolved — is actually what has been troubling them. Recognizing that together is usually one of the first important steps.

My role is not to tell you what to do or what to think. It is to listen carefully, and to help you listen to yourself — so that what you already know about yourself becomes more available, more intelligible, and ultimately more useful to you.