I offer psychoanalysis and psychotherapy to adults and older adolescents and case consultation to practicing psychotherapists.

Psychoanalytic therapy is a very powerful treatment that can create profound life changes. The treatment is intense and intimate and it takes time. Many people first come to psychotherapy in a life crisis or with relationship struggles or conflicts in their work life. Troubling life experiences like these are a key to unconscious conflicts and patterns of living that can be worked out and adjusted so that life is more livable and fulfilling.

Changes come through developing a relationship with a therapist in which patterns and experiences can be lived out and examined. A wider range of life choices become available and patients in psychoanalytic therapy gain a greater capacity for autonomy in living. My work aims to increase the capacity to love, work and play with greater freedom and passion.

Psychotherapy begins with your phone call and the arrangement of a first session. At that meeting you and I will discuss your goals and wishes and negotiate how best to proceed.

Experience

I am a trained psychoanalyst and a clinical psychologist licensed in the State of Oregon. I am a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association. I am past president of the Oregon Psychological Association and I am on the faculty of the Oregon Psychoanaltyic Institute and the Northwest Center for Psychonalysis - Portland.