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Psychoanalysis

Who It's For

Psychoanalysis is available for adults and mature adolescents (16+).

Frequency

Psychoanalysis is an intensive therapy that requires three to four visits per week. The higher frequency of visits helps to experience, identify, and address underlying unconscious wishes, fears, and conflicts that have interfered with living a full and meaningful life.

Medication Needs

I prescribe medications for psychotherapy patients as needed. For patients who already have a psychiatrist prescribing medications with whom they want to continue working, I will coordinate treatment with that physician.

Conditions Treated

It is important to me to work with people and not with diagnostic labels. I work with patients experiencing a number of difficulties, including persistent feelings of sadness, worry, emptiness, dread, or previously-diagnosed mood, anxiety, personality, and eating disorders. I focus on a patient’s thoughts, feelings, and interpersonal relationships, including their relationship with me, and how the problems they experience interfere with them living a life that is meaningful to them.
Please note that my approach is not a good fit for people struggling with active addiction, psychotic symptoms, or for people who are medically or nutritionally unstable as a result of eating disorders.
I ask that patients with eating disorders work concurrently with a dietitian and primary care physician with whom I am able to coordinate. I am happy to provide referrals to patients who do not already have a treatment team. Due to the nature of my practice, I am only able to work with patients with eating disorders who are nutritionally and medically stable.

What is It

Psychoanalysis is an intensive long-term treatment that closely examines a patient’s thoughts, feelings, interpersonal relationships, including the patient’s ongoing relationship with the therapist. This data allows the therapist and patient to work together to identify and experience deep fears, wishes, and conflicts that were previously unconscious. Through this process, patients are often able to develop a different relationship to past and current pain and to experience full and meaningful lives, including the ability to love, work, play, and create.

What to Expect

In an analytic session, I encourage the patient to take the lead. Patients talk openly about their thoughts, feelings, dreams, fantasies, and relationships, including their feelings about me. My role is to listen and to help the patient identify, understand, and modify the underlying wishes, fears, and conflicts that continue to shape their life.