Exploring the patterns, conflicts, and possibilities beneath the surface of everyday life.

Much of our psychological life unfolds outside conscious awareness. We may find ourselves repeating familiar patterns in relationships, struggling with emotions we cannot fully understand, or experiencing a sense of dissatisfaction that persists despite outward success.

Depth psychotherapy offers an opportunity to explore these experiences with sustained attention and curiosity.

Grounded in Jungian and psychodynamic traditions, this work involves understanding how past experiences, unconscious conflicts, emotional life, and longstanding patterns of relating may influence our present lives.

Rather than approaching psychological symptoms solely as problems to eliminate, we also consider what they might reveal about aspects of ourselves that have not yet been fully understood.

The Therapeutic Relationship

The relationship that develops between patient and therapist is an important part of depth psychotherapy. Over time, familiar patterns of relating to others may emerge within our work together, offering opportunities to recognize and explore experiences that can be difficult to understand elsewhere.

Attending to these experiences together can foster greater emotional awareness, flexibility, and the capacity to relate more freely to oneself and others.

Dreams, Emotions, and Embodied Experience

Our psychological lives are expressed not only through conscious thoughts, but also through feelings, dreams, bodily sensations, and experiences that may be difficult to put into words.

Drawing upon Jungian psychology, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and mindfulness-based and somatic perspectives, I attend to these different dimensions of experience as they emerge in our work together.

Dreams can offer a window into aspects of psychological life that may not be readily accessible through conscious reflection alone. Similarly, bodily sensations and emotional experiences may provide clues to patterns of stress, conflict, or ways of relating that have not yet become fully conscious. Rather than imposing fixed interpretations, we approach these experiences with curiosity, exploring the personal meanings they may hold.

The Process of Ongoing Psychotherapy

Depth psychotherapy is generally an ongoing process, with sessions typically occurring once or twice weekly.

The regularity of meetings provides an opportunity to develop a sustained therapeutic relationship and to explore patterns that may gradually emerge over time.

The aim is not simply to gain intellectual insight or reduce symptoms, although both can be important. It is also to develop a deeper relationship with one's emotional life, greater freedom in responding to longstanding patterns, and a fuller sense of oneself.

As psychoanalyst Karen Horney wrote:

“Self-knowledge, then, is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth.”

— Karen Horney, MD, Neurosis and Human Growth (1950)