Specialties
Empathy, our ability to understand and connect emotionally with others, is the key to our emotional well being. Our brains are hard wired to understand others and to seek understanding and attunement from our loved ones. Unfortunately, our past experiences of disrupted attachment or emotional trauma can interfere with our ability to provide and receive empathy. My approach to psychotherapy, rooted in contemporary Relational Psychoanalysis, seeks to repair our capacity to find, maintain, and provide empathic connections to others. This approach works well with both couples and individuals. Many of my couples clients feel that they are able to grow as individuals through the therapy process, overcoming lifelong self-defeating patterns. And in the safety of an emphatically attuned therapeutic relationship, individual clients can heal past traumas and find the capacity to grow into the self they want to be.