Relationships can be messy and challenging. Let's build our skills for communication and collaboration, while also finding supports for empathy and resilience. I work with intimate relationships of many arrangements: monogamy, polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of consensual non-monogamy and relationship anarchy.
Licensed Psychoanalyst, Ed.D. (CA Medical Board License #RP 227)
My approach to therapy as a Jungian analyst is to listen deeply to discover the unique person that you are and the problems you are facing. In a safe, caring, and supportive setting we will utilize dream analysis, journaling, and other creative work to help guide you back to the wisdom within.
I work with couples and individuals on relationship issues. As humans we are wired for connection so relationships are at the core of our sense of self and well being. In my practice we can explore who you are as a child, parent, friend, or partner and gain insight into these important relationships.
Couples can get themselves into negative cycles that seem to happen on repeat. When this persists over time, the gap between a couple can widen, sometimes so much that both parties are turning away from each other and toward unhealthy coping mechanisms. I help couples re-learn how to listen to each other, understand each other’s unique emotional experience, and pave the way for reconnection to occur.
Relationships and Marriage are complex and bring out certain parts of ourselves that need attention, understanding, and coping. How we communicate with, understand, and hear our partners are important parts of healthy relationships as well as establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries. Together we will explore what you and your partner are having difficulties with and want more insight into in order to feel connected and understood, as well as understanding maladaptive copings and communications.
We offer research-based, integrative therapy for individuals with relationship issues and couples seeking to improve their relationships. We provide pre-marriage and marriage counseling. And also work with couples who have chosen to end a long-term relationship and wish for a conscious, amicable separation.
We offer couples therapy for those who are currently struggling with significant conflict in their relationship, or those who are wanting to deepen their connection with their partner.
The approach for relationship and marriage counseling is to utilize Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapies, psychodynamic, and psychoanalysis for the purpose of creating a more effective and positive linkage and relationship between the partners.
Emotionally focused Couples Therapy guides us to find safe, comforting ways to be with each other. Whether a Pursuer or a Withdrawer, with my help you will find your way back to each other.