People come to psychotherapy when life proves more complex, tragic, or disappointing than expected. During these times, people stumble backwards into a crisis of premise causing them to wonder: How did I become so alone? How did I come to lead a life that has so little to do with me? Why is it so hard to know how I feel and what I want? Most importantly, can things really be different?

Psychotherapy aims to address these problems, but the marketplace for help can be daunting. Therapists vary widely in their personalities and deploy a myriad of treatment approaches, each purporting to address human suffering in novel terms. Finding the right fit for you can take time and experimentation. Help-seekers, including many therapists themselves, seek psychodynamic therapy (modern psychoanalytic treatment) when other approaches have not fully addressed their problems of living. This is the form of therapy I offer.

To state my perspective boldly, I believe people suffer above all with problematic feelings. These feelings and our ways of coping with them, subtly constrain us to patterns of capricious whim or rigid consistency - in some cases, preventing us from fulfilling lives of play, love, and meaningful work. They can also prevent us from the difficult tasks of mourning and letting go.