Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is concerned with emotional suffering anchored in past trauma and present conflict. Psychoanalytic practice seeks to understand how one’s mind functions, how that function may have been damaged, and what is needed to free the Self for optimal growth.
Neuroscience continues to confirm that psychoanalysis is the most comprehensive theory of the mind available today. Deep psychoanalytically informed treatment changes brain structure and chemistry in a lasting manner.
Contemplative Psychotherapy
In the contemplative perspective, meaningful psychotherapy is grounded in the ability to be present with whatever arises in the moment. Authentic change is based in actual experience. In the contemplative view our true, basic nature is that of intrinsic health, but we don’t always see or experience ourselves as such.
Contemplative psychotherapy is a process that returns us to this fully awake and aware state. When we can experience ourselves in the moment just as we are, we become free of unnecessary suffering.
Getting Started
In the first session, you can tell me what you want from therapy, and we'll collaborate to find the frequency of sessions and a fee that works for both of us. I work primarily by phone.
I am also available for consultation with practitioners in other healing traditions who are curious about the psychological dimensions of healing relationships and who want to integrate awareness of these dimensions into their work with people.
