In the initial sessions you will be invited to tell me about yourself and to share with me what is ailing or stymying you. The session content will be open-ended and exploratory in nature. I will encourage you to speak your mind to the best of your ability without censorship, something most of us find quite challenging. What emerges as we talk together will help guide our work.

The discoveries made in psychoanalytic work may challenge the structures and understandings by which you have shaped your life. In fact, you may come to realize that what led you to treatment, such as feeling unsettled or stuck, was that the structures and understandings that were once valuable or even vital are no longer serving you. Because these kinds of realizations can at first be as upending as they are vitalizing, psychoanalytic work requires a certain degree of stability and commitment and a willingness to entertain the idea that there are parts of ourselves that we do not know very well and would do well to explore and know better. It is the unknown in us that often surprises or perplexes us. It is that unknown that often trips us up and gets in our way, sometimes leading to repetitions that harm us.

Through increased understanding of yourself through gradual integration of parts previously unknown or disavowed, facilitated by the therapeutic relationship that forms between us, you may develop more flexibility and comfort with yourself and, in turn, increased freedom to enjoy your life.