People come to therapy feeling stuck, like a knot you can’t untangle. Insight isn’t enough: knowing your attachment style hasn’t changed the plotline of your relationships. You keep finding yourself in the same frustrating patterns.
My work is grounded in contemporary relational psychoanalysis. Without realizing it, you developed these patterns and symptoms to help you survive. But today, they may no longer serve you. Together, we work to understand why you needed them, what keeps them in place, and what might allow something different to emerge.
As we explore, I look beyond your words, paying attention to what’s not said: shifts in topic, tone, affect, and body language, as well as how relational dynamics show up between us.
My practice is supervised by psychoanalyst Sam Guzzardi, LCSW
We each develop an internal script for how the world works, shaped by early experiences and relationships. It tends to repeat across contexts, often outside of awareness.
We make these patterns more visible, understand where they come from, and question what no longer fits.
THE INTERNAL SCRIPT
Symptoms don’t come out of nowhere. They often function as ways of coping or protecting.
We explore what they’re expressing, where they come from, and what purpose they’ve served.
BENEATH THE SURFACE
As we work, these patterns show up in real time, including in the therapeutic relationship. When something unfolds differently between us, the experience itself begins to rewrite the script.
Together, we make sense of what happened, allowing the new experience to become part of how you understand yourself, relate to others, and move through the world.
IN THE ROOM