Approach and Background:

 

Sessions are meant to follow where you are in the 'here and now' rather than following a prescribed format. Sometimes current events or new ideas can awaken and link to things already inside of us. Sometimes doing less and striving less allows us the room to reckon with the things inside of us that have been waiting to be seen for a long time.

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I practice from a relational and intersubjective stance in contemporary psychoanalysis  that understands that you and I mutually influence each other; this space of interplay is a main location for our work. I am also informed by attachment, trauma, critical race, decolonial, feminist, queer, gender and social justice theories. This means that my clinical base is psychoanalytic because of its vocabulary and frameworks that help address how we are psychically formed in relationship to other people and other phenomena and for its methodology of deep listening. But like all theories and disciplines it requires continuous evolution and critique for ways it will inevitably fall short of being inclusive to all, thus I am a constant student in other disciplines where psychoanalytic theory has yet to develop. Additionally, I implement skills based trauma and mindfulness practices when needed.