Psychodynamic therapy (sometimes called psychoanalysis) is a form of talk therapy that explores the unconscious factors influencing your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It helps you uncover patterns and beliefs formed early in life that may be limiting your personal or professional growth.

Unlike cognitive-behavioral therapy or solution-focused therapy, psychodynamic therapy goes deeper than symptoms. Instead of just managing anxiety or stress, I explore why those patterns exist and how they are connected to your past experiences, giving you lasting insight and self-understanding.

You’ll share thoughts, feelings, and experiences while we explore recurring patterns, emotions, and relationships. Together, we make connections between past experiences and current challenges to help you gain clarity and perspective.

Psychodynamic therapy is typically a longer-term process because real insight and change take time. The pace is tailored to your needs – quality and depth matter more than speed.

Professionals, high-achievers, or anyone feeling “stuck” in repetitive patterns, dissatisfaction, or relational challenges can benefit. It’s especially helpful for those seeking meaning, clarity, and lasting change rather than quick fixes.

Absolutely. By uncovering the underlying causes of these feelings – often rooted in unresolved past experiences – you can reduce symptoms, make sense of emotional triggers, and gain tools to respond differently in your daily life.

No prior experience is required. While openness helps, psychodynamic therapy is guided – you’re supported every step of the way. You’ll learn how to reflect meaningfully, even if that doesn’t come naturally at first.

If you’ve tried other approaches without lasting change, it’s often because the work stayed at the surface. You learned skills or talked about feelings, but the underlying patterns never shifted. Psychodynamic therapy addresses those patterns directly – the ones formed in your earliest relationships that still run your life today.

I’m not in-network with insurance companies. This means you would pay the session fee at the time of the appointment and later seek reimbursement from your insurance company. At the end of each month, I can provide you with a superbill to give to your insurance company.

You can see if you have out-of-network coverage by logging into the insurance company website or by calling the number on the back of your card. Here is a step-by-step guide with a list of questions to ask in case helpful: http://bit.ly/2y0Uvb0

I’m of course happy to answer any questions you have when we speak.

• Chat GPT provides quick, well reasoned answers crowd-sourced based on prior users interactions and information available via search engines.  It’s great - I use it in my practice to help organize my thoughts, set up structured talks, and check my sources when doing research.  And it provides some very helpful and, at times, sensitive answers to therapeutic questions.

• However, our patterns, our old hurts, the difficulties that began long ago and persist today - they were formed in relationship with other people.  

• To heal those old hurts requires a relationship with another person - in this case, a therapist providing a unique space to work out old conflicts.  

• To get to the root of our issues requires careful, flexible intuition as each of us has a dynamically different childhood with infinitely diverse nuances, feelings, memories and dreams.

• Gathering information artificially, while impressive in its speed and scale, doesn’t provide the healing experience that being vulnerable in the presence of another allows.  

• While being vulnerable in the presence of another can elicit intense feelings and reactions, it’s this difficulty that leads to real lasting growth - the kind of growth that both heals and spurs you toward the change you’ve been seeking.  

• AI will continue to improve and appear ever closer to reality.  But it won’t be able to fully replace the unpredictable, difficult and scary (growth-inducing) contact that occurs with a therapist trained and motivated to listen to you, notice you, and wonder with you about your deepest questions and fears while helping you figure out what kind of person you want to become and how to get there.  

One other important aspect: 24/7 interaction and feedback supplied by AI can be comforting, and is pretty remarkable.  However, working through the therapist’s lack of availability (very different from AI), the feelings this can produce, is a vital part of the process.  After all, the most important people in your life are similarly not always available like AI (physically and emotionally) and working this way with a therapist helps improve your outside relationships - which will always lack the precision and availability of a machine.