Understanding how therapy works can help you feel more comfortable beginning the process. My work is rooted in depth-oriented psychotherapy, which focuses on understanding the emotional patterns, experiences, and relationships that shape how we think, feel, and respond to life today.
Many people come to therapy feeling overwhelmed, stuck in repeating patterns, or unsure why certain struggles keep returning. The approaches I use are designed to help bring greater awareness to these underlying dynamics so meaningful and lasting change can occur.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on understanding how past experiences and relationships influence the way we experience ourselves and others today. Many emotional struggles—such as anxiety, depression, or relationship difficulties—are connected to patterns that developed earlier in life.
In therapy, we explore these patterns together in a thoughtful and collaborative way. As these underlying dynamics become clearer, many people begin to understand their reactions, emotions, and relationships differently. This deeper insight often opens the door to lasting change.
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a focused form of psychodynamic therapy that helps identify and work through emotional conflicts that may be contributing to anxiety, depression, and other challenges.
Many people experience powerful emotions that have been pushed aside or avoided for a long time. ISTDP helps bring these emotional experiences into awareness in a supportive and structured way, allowing them to be understood and processed rather than remaining hidden beneath the surface.
Clinical Hypnosis
Clinical hypnosis can be a valuable tool within psychotherapy for accessing deeper emotional processes and supporting meaningful change. It can help people reach parts of their experience that may be difficult to access through conversation alone.
Hypnosis is often used to support work with anxiety, trauma, and certain forms of chronic pain. When used within a therapeutic setting, it helps create a focused state that allows individuals to explore emotions and experiences in a new and constructive way.