Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic means I care about what happened in your past. With awareness of our past experiences, we can better understand and heal our current selves.

I integrate psychodynamic therapy into my practice to help you explore unconscious patterns shaped by past experiences. By examining early relationships and core beliefs, I can help you understand how these influence your present emotions and behaviors. My compassionate approach fosters self-awareness, emotional healing, and lasting change, empowering you to release what holds you back and embrace your authentic self.

Psychodynamic therapy puts emphases on the psychological cause of emotional pain. Self-reflection and self-examination are its major focus, relying on the bond between the therapist and patient as its main tool. While it aims to alleviate ones negative symptoms, most importantly, its goal is helping people to live balanced, more satisfied lives.

This looks like us exploring your past and present at a deeper level, taking into account your family and relationship history and seeing ways those early experiences impact your current life.

While I practice in a very integrative way, my foundation is most heavily in psychodynamic thinking. To me, the best way to describe psychodynamic thinking is that our brains are programmed by our early experiences, and often parts of us try to make sense of events by using those early templates. Sometimes we need to help those parts let go of early scripts and be open to the idea that current events may not match up completely. This frees our most adult, grounded self to show up.

During graduate school, I completed a concentration in psychodynamic therapy for adults.

I utilize PDT because I do not believe in just treating symptoms; I believe we need to work on improving symptoms while exploring the roots of the issue causing such symptoms. In Psychodynamic, we explore patterns and connections between childhood and adulthood and then, work on processing and resolving issues

Many times our struggles can be traced back to our early childhood experiences and our relationships with our family. I bring a knowledge of analytic theory into my practice as a tool to support your exploration of early life experiences.

I make use of psychodynamic therapy interventions to deep dive into clients' pasts and experiences and help form understanding and insight about current feelings, behaviors, and patterns. This can be used to increase self awareness and growth, as well as instigate behavioral change over time.

I was trained in psychodynamic therapy throughout my masters program. Understanding a client's history, background, and family is essential to knowing how they are impacted by the world in the present.

Psychodynamic therapy focuses on unconscious processes as they are manifested in the client’s present behavior. These unconscious processes can often drive maladaptive behavior and psychodynamic therapy aims to help the person discover unconscious thoughts and motivators so that they can change their behaviors. In psychodynamic therapy, this is done by increasing a person’s self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behavior.

Psychodynamic therapy enables us to look at conflicts that often have travelled with you throughout your life. It's a longer-term process, which helps underlying themes come through. Often people go to therapy and work somewhat superficially, and the work is unsatisfying. But psychodynamic work tends to "stick" better.

I am in a psychodynamically oriented doctoral program out of Chicago (The Institute for Clinical Social Work), where I have done an in-depth study on this treatment orientation. I have completed over 100 hours of supervision, specifically in psychodynamic theory, and am writing my dissertation on this topic. I strongly believe in the power of this holistic, depth-oriented, relational approach for healing a wide range of pain and struggles.

As a psychodynamic therapist, I’m attentive to both conscious and unconscious processes, including personality structure, defense mechanisms, and early relational patterns. I help clients explore how past experiences shape present behavior, relationships, and self-perception. My style is thoughtful and attuned, guiding clients toward insight, emotional depth, and a more integrated sense of self.

A Psychodynamic approach enables you to understand more fully how your early life experiences inform your present behaviors, feelings, and patterns.

My work is grounded in psychodynamic theory, where one core focus is on building a strong therapeutic relationship. I help clients understand how past experiences shape their current behavior and relationships. By exploring these patterns, we work together to create positive changes, allowing clients to develop healthier relationships with themselves and others and to foster personal growth.

I have dedicated my practice to understanding the unconscious patterns that shape thoughts, emotions, and relationships. Through extensive clinical experience, I have helped clients explore the impact of their early attachments, defenses, and unresolved conflicts, guiding them toward greater self-awareness and emotional integration. My work is rooted in depth-oriented exploration, allowing clients to uncover and transform the underlying dynamics that influence their present struggles.

The roles we play in life now can be connected to our our roles, values and beliefs we learned when we were younger. My role is to help illuminate your emotions and unhealthy patterns of behavior that would provide you with the keys to unlocking the root of your concerns. By having a deeper understanding of your internal world, we will help you to make decisions that would lead to a more successful life.

I have a strong background in psychodynamic approaches including psychological research in attachment theories. In my current practice, I recognize that we all have a past that may influence how we interact in the world today. Through therapy, clients can gain insight into how unaddressed past pains may be affecting their current quality of life and important relationships.

Learning about your background, even briefly, is almost always needed in getting a fuller picture of your struggles as well as your strengths. This approach will help us to explore the possible connection between your past experiences and your current mindset.