As a psychoanalyst trained in social work, I bring a perspective that is sensitive to issues significant to marginalized groups, and have years of experience working with people of color, low-income and senior individuals, former cult members, and those in the neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, polyamorous, kink, drag, and sex work communities.
I specialize in Lacanian psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, a non-behavioral and non-normalizing approach to therapy which is meant to help find what it is we truly want, and separate it from what others want from us.
“Have you acted in accordance with your desire?” — Jacques Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
A note on time: I practice sessions of variable length, typically finding a good note to end on between 30-45 mins.
Though psychoanalysis can help with behavioral and substance issues, it does not seek to change behaviors through force of will and strategy, but rather to explore the unconscious reasons that the behaviors exist in the first place. Psychoanalysis is a long-term engagement with the unconscious which aims for fundamental and transformational changes in one's experience of the world by means of dialogue with one's conflicting desires.
