Psychoanalyst & Writer
My work is grounded in psychoanalytic thinking and is oriented toward people who want sustained, in-depth psychological exploration.
I approach symptoms and life impasses as meaningful formations with an internal logic.
When anxiety, depression, inhibition, compulsive overwork, relational conflict, or emotional shutdown persist, the problem is often not a lack of insight or willpower.
More commonly, the mind is maintaining an arrangement that once offered protection, even if it now comes at a high cost.
Coming in April 2026
About You
People who seek me out are frequently thoughtful, capable, and accomplished in their external lives, yet feel constrained internally. Their competence is not an illusion. They function at a high level, carry responsibility, and are often relied upon in professional and personal contexts. At the same time, they describe a private sense of limitation that does not match how their lives look from the outside.
Some arrive with a persistent dissatisfaction that survives external success. Others describe a diminished capacity for pleasure, desire, grief, or spontaneity. There can be a feeling of living with a narrowed emotional range, or of maintaining a self that is effective but not fully inhabited. For some, the conflict is experienced as a relentless inner pressure, a harsh internal standard, or an inability to rest without guilt.
The problems that bring people to treatment commonly involve intimacy and sexuality, identity, and their creative or professional life. This can take the form of repeated relational dynamics that feel unavoidable, difficulty sustaining desire when closeness increases, or a pattern of choosing partners who reproduce familiar forms of disappointment. It can also include shame around dependency, fear of being seen, a tendency to withdraw at the moment closeness becomes possible, or a reliance on control that protects against vulnerability.
Many people who come to me have done therapy before. They may understand their history, recognize their patterns, and still feel unchanged at the level that matters. Psychoanalytic work is particularly suited to this situation because it focuses on how a pattern is maintained, what it protects, and what it demands. The goal is to make the organizing structure of the difficulty available to thought and feeling, so that new options become possible in love, work, and self-regard.
Our Sessions
In our sessions, we slow down enough to study how your experience is organized as it unfolds. We pay attention to what you can say directly, as well as what appears indirectly through shifts in affect, changes in speech, silence, repetition, and the points where thinking becomes constrained. Memory and fantasy are treated as living material that shapes expectation and desire in the present, not simply as historical content to recount.
The therapeutic relationship is central to the work. Over time, patterns that feel fixed in your outside relationships often appear here in a more observable form. This may involve the way closeness is negotiated, how anger is managed, how dependency is tolerated, what feels humiliating to need, or what becomes difficult to receive. Working with these patterns in real time creates conditions for change that does not rely on performance or self-improvement.
The aim is not symptom management alone. But rather deeper structural change that becomes evident in how you feel, how you relate, and what you can choose without being driven by repetition.