Our initial visit will include a comprehensive evaluation of your present concerns, relevant history and contributing medical, family, and social factors.  Once the evaluation is complete, we will collaboratively decide on an appropriate course of treatment to pursue, including:

PSYCHOTHERAPY

In psychotherapy, we work to explore your present concerns in detail.  By focusing on helping you express yourself as freely as possible, we explore how old ways of being influence your current decisions and relationships, which can oftentimes lead to feelings of being stuck.  By exploring and challenging these dynamics, we maximize your inner strengths and find new ways of coping, both of which serve to help you find more meaning in life and move forward. My approach is warm, empathic, collaborative, and flexible.  My training in psychotherapy includes psychodynamic psychotherapy, play therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).  I provide psychotherapy f0r children, adolescents, adults, couples and families. 

PSYCHOANALYSIS

Psychoanalysis is a type of psychotherapy that provides the most in-depth exploration of your present concerns, largely due to the frequency of having sessions up to four times per week.  Psychoanalysis is based on the notion that individuals are not consciously aware of the multiple determinants of their emotions and associated behaviors.  By facilitating an environment that allows you to speak whatever it is that comes to your mind, we can carefully and comprehensively explore how past experiences and engrained patterns of thinking dictate your current way of being.  Together, we will develop a deep understanding of these unconscious factors, and learn to free you from their influence in order to have more control of your life.  I prove psychoanalysis for children, adolescents, and adults. 

MEDICATION EVALUATION & MANAGEMENT

Medication management may be a useful tool to treat particular psychiatric symptoms, either alone or in conjunction with psychotherapy, following our initial evaluation.  As part of a medication evaluation, I provide you with detailed medication information to allow you to make an informed decision if a medication appears to be indicated.  After initiating a medication, I continue to work with you to closely monitor benefits and any possible side-effects that arise over the course of treatment. Medication evaluation and management is available to children, adolescents, and adults. 

CONDITIONS TREATED

  • Depression

  • Bipolar Disorder

  • Eating disorders

  • Anxiety disorders

  • Personality disorders

  • OCD

  • Autism Spectrum Disorders