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    My work

    I am licensed, trained and educated both as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. I maintain a private practice in Berkeley, California and provide treatment in-person and remotely. I am a faculty member of SF Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, a member of CAMFT, and a member of the Sacramento Psychoanalytic Society. I have published in The European Journal of Psychoanalysis and write elsewhere in the poetic/analytic mode. I present on the practice of psychoanalysis, and facilitate seminars in the reading of Freud and Lacan.

    I have extensive training in working with adults, elders, and children. I see patients in individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and work with families in consultation. I work with a variety of issues from depression, sadness, anxiety, and grief, to work-related issues, school-related issues, parenting difficulties, issues related to care giving of aging family members, & trauma related symptoms. I work best with those who wish to make lasting change in their circumstances and inner lives.

    The talking cure

    Freud discovered that mental symptoms of profound suffering could be alleviated by speaking. His first patient, Anna O., dubbed this the “talking cure.” This “talking cure,” achieved by the patient speaking freely, allows repressed unconscious material to safely emerge into conscious spoken awareness. In the presence of the analyst’s therapeutically attuned listening, the painful motor force of symptoms can be heard, addressed, and alleviated. Through this gradual therapeutic process you can uncover and bring into existence long buried desire while taking up responsibility for your life.

    Clinical Services

    I see patients in individual therapy and in consultation with families. I work with a variety of issues from depression, sadness, anxiety, grief, work-related issues, school related issues, parenting difficulties, issues related to care giving of aging family members, and trauma related symptoms. I work best with those who are interested in making lasting changes in their life circumstances and inner lives.