SERVICES

I work with individuals and couples.

 

The psychotherapy I provide is rooted in the psychoanalytic tradition and focuses on paying close attention to patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. The patterns developed for good reason, to lessen pain, but no longer serve their original purpose, and now cause us pain. The patterns show up in how we talk to ourselves, in the choices we make, and how we react to others. While some of the patterns may be quite conscious, painfully so, some might be deeply unconscious, understandably so. Psychotherapy helps us get unstuck from unhelpful patterns. 

 

We feel especially stuck when we can only feel a few strong feelings, only hear a few loud inner voices, and only see a limited number choices. In this way we are closed off to other aspects of our experience of ourselves, of others, and of being in the world. Increasing our awareness might mean staying more present with our moment to moment experience, or it might involve connecting the past to the present. In either case, with greater awareness comes greater freedom, flexibility and ease. ​​

 

Of course this process of noticing is not something we can do by ourselves, and so in a way, the psychotherapy I offer helps people feel better in the same way that optometry helps people see better. ​​

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My fee for a 50 minute session is comparable with average rates for psychotherapy in the Bay Area provided by practitioners with similar training and experience. Fees may be reduced based on financial circumstances. I am in-network with Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California, and can also provide a super-bill to submit to your insurance company. 

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