Here are some ways that we can work together
Individual therapy
Relationship Issues. I can help with feelings of disconnection, communication issues, family transitions, perinatal & postpartum experiences, gestational & non-gestational experiences of parenting & impact of children on relationships & sexual intimacy.
Identity. Concerns related to sense of self, such as who am I, as well as one’s identity as it relates to professional/career concerns, gender, sexuality, racial experiences and parenthood.
Anxiety and Depression. Feelings of overwhelm, loss of a sense of meaning, perfectionism, feeling blue or, alternatively, feeling nothing at all.
Career Concerns. Work-life balance and a desire to become more embodied in your career of choice.
Trauma. Processing experiences that have been debilitating or negatively impacted your life including childhood abuse, substance abuse, and painful familial relationships.
Couples Therapy
Communication Issues. Cultivating better communication patterns, more emotional understanding, and facilitating increased emotional and physical intimacy.
Parenting dynamics. Helping couples process emotions involved in parenting and the impacts of different developmental stages on the life of a couple.
Transitions. Address feelings about whether to have or not to have children, impact of retirement on couples, elder care, familial grief and loss.
Multi-heritage couples. Address the unique stressors facing culturally blended couples, particularly as they come together as partners and have families.
Consultation
I provide clinical consultation for therapists and therapists-in-training who are interested in developing a deeper understanding of psychodynamic therapy as it relates to cultural dynamics and the social unconscious. I offer these services both through my individual practice and in conjunction with my colleague, Ali Kimmell, LCSW at the Bay Area Group Therapy Center. More about our work together can be found here. The way identities are held, responded to and reflected in the cultural surround is impactful and a meaningful relationship that informs psychological development. This trifecta of considerations: socio-cultural awareness, individual histories and emotional development, provides a lens with which to provide effective interventions and useful treatment.
Reading Group
I lead a weekly reading group called The Children’s Hour: Psychoanalytic Reading Group in which we read children’s stories paired with a relevant psychoanalytic reading. In this group, we hold as a premise that children’s stories are speaking to profound emotional experiences and developmental concepts. As adults, we sometimes lose this way of experiencing that can feel so vivid as a child. The group is exploratory and creative, exploring psychoanalytic concepts such as object permanence, grief, magical thinking, rapprochement and power. If you are interested, please inquire about openings.