Areas of Practice
Therapy that looks beneath the surface
Most people don’t come to therapy because everything is fine. They come because something keeps repeating such as a relationship pattern that never quite resolves, an anxiety that won’t quiet down, or a life transition that feels heavier than it should. Relationship problems, dissatisfaction, addictions, and symptoms that persist are often what bring people here. If any of these sounds familiar, you are not alone, and there is a way through.
Psychotherapy with a psychoanalytic orientation offers a way of working with the complexity of our experiences. It allows us to explore suffering in depth and supports meaningful, long-term change. Therapy can be a focused, punctual process addressing a specific difficulty, or a longer journey that allows for a deeper transformation and a different way of positioning oneself in relation to life. Sometimes we find ourselves in similar situations again and again, even when we want something different.
You do not need to arrive with everything figured out. We can begin with what is bringing you here.
01 — Anxiety
Anxiety
When worry becomes difficult to quiet
If you experience persistent anxiety, tension, or overthinking, we’ll go beyond symptom relief to explore what your anxiety may be trying to tell you.
Together, we can explore what your anxiety may be expressing, what experiences may be connected to it, and how it affects the way you relate to yourself and others.
02 — Relationships & Relational Patterns
Relationships & Relational Patterns
When the same patterns keep returning
If the same relationship struggles with partners, family or friends keep resurfacing, we’ll explore these repetitions instead of explaining them away.
Psychodynamic therapy can help you look more closely at recurring relational patterns and consider what they may be repeating, expressing, or asking to be understood.
03 — Addictions
Addictions
Understanding the pattern beneath the behavior
If you find yourself caught in a pattern that feels repetitive or difficult to interrupt, even when you are fully aware of its consequences, awareness alone may not always be enough to change it.
From a psychoanalytic perspective, addiction isn’t just a behavior to be corrected through willpower, it often stands in for something that hasn’t yet found another way to be expressed or worked through. If you find yourself caught in a pattern even though you’re fully aware of its consequences, we’ll look at what the pattern is doing, not just how to stop it.
Therapy offers space to explore what the pattern is doing in your life, rather than focusing only on how to stop it.
04 — Academic & Performance Pressure
Academic & Performance Pressure
When achievement starts to feel like never enough
Academic and professional achievement can bring satisfaction, but it can also become tied to pressure, self-criticism, perfectionism, or a persistent feeling that you should be doing more.
If academic or professional pressure has left you burned out or caught in a cycle of never feeling like enough, we’ll look beneath the pressure itself to see what it’s tied to and where it comes from.
Migration Experiences
Exploring identity, belonging, and life between cultures
Migration can change much more than where you live. It can raise questions about identity, belonging, relationships, language, and how you understand yourself.
If migration, cultural transition, or living between languages has shaped how you see yourself or where you belong, we’ll explore that experience directly in the language that feels closest to it.
For those who prefer it, this work can also take place in the language that feels closest to your experience.
Life Transitions
Making sense of change and uncertainty
If a change, whether chosen or one that happened to you, has left you uncertain about who you are or where you’re heading, that uncertainty is worth taking seriously rather than rushing past. Transitions often surface questions that were already there, questions about direction, identity, and what you actually want, rather than creating them out of nothing. This work offers space to sit with that uncertainty and understand what it’s asking of you.
Trauma
When the past continues to shape the present
If something from your past remains difficult to process or put into words, and continues to shape your life in ways that aren’t always clear, that difficulty itself is meaningful. Trauma often resists straightforward narration; it shows up instead in repetition, in what gets avoided, in what returns unexpectedly. This work doesn’t require you to have the right words from the start. It offers space for what happened to be spoken, slowly, in whatever way becomes possible.
You don't have to figure it out alone.
Beginning therapy can feel like a significant step, especially when you are not entirely sure where to begin.
You don’t need to have the right words or a clear explanation of what you’re experiencing. We can begin with what brings you here and explore from there.
If this resonates with you, I welcome you to get in touch.