I provide psychodynamically and psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy as well as psychoanalysis. Typically, the process of therapy is a long-term commitment on your part. Psychodynamic therapy generally requires a weekly meeting while psychoanalysis relies on several meetings a week to allow a deeper understanding of yourself and ideally a more stable, enduring change of the problems that have not been resolved through your own efforts and in prior treatments. Both of these treatments focus on our unconscious that often drives our thoughts and behaviors.
We have all had plenty of time to develop our ways of being in the world. At some point, our ways of being that once allowed us to adapt well to our various environments can begin to get in our way. We experience chronic states of depression and anxiety, repeat patterns in relationships that lead to impasse or endings, and fail to reach our goals in life and career. Like the various technologies in our world, they become outdated and no longer function.
We then begin to encounter barriers — often these are out of our awareness — that prevent us from thriving. We suffer in one or all of the areas of life. I believe the therapeutic relationship offers a unique opportunity in the here-and-now to increase our self-awareness and help us understand the influence of the past on our present.
I work collaboratively, empathically and creatively to help you get “unstuck” and to foster meaningful, lasting change in your inner world and in your relationships with others. Though psychotherapy is a longer-term endeavor, I have also worked in environments such as college counseling, employee assistance, and consulting, that require application of my psychodynamic and other therapeutic skills to a brief period of time. My approach is to help you understand yourself and what would help you the most at this time.
Over the years, I have worked with people who are experiencing challenges related to college, work, intimate relationships, identity (cultural, racial, sexual, gender, class – and intersections of these), trauma, grief, adjustments or transitions, anxiety and depression.
In addition, as a adjunct faculty member of the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute of the Emory School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, I provide supervision and consultation to other psychotherapists as well as teach ongoing courses within the Institute and facilitate Balint groups for the Emory Goizueta Business School.
Please contact me at (404) 550-6112 for more information or to schedule an appointment for psychotherapy or for consultation.