Approach
Psychodynamic Therapy
Looking at where a pattern came from, not only at how to manage it.
Psychodynamic work is interested in the parts of your life that repeat. The same kind of relationship, the same argument, the same feeling arriving in situations that look different on the surface.
Rather than treating those patterns as bad habits to be replaced, we look at what they were for — what they protected, who taught them, what they cost. People tend to find that a pattern loosens once they can see it clearly, in a way it never did while they were only trying to stop it.
Who this tends to help
- The same relationship ending the same way, with different people
- Understanding a pattern perfectly well and repeating it anyway
- Wanting more than tools and coping strategies
- Feelings that seem to belong to something older than the current situation
What I use this for
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Trauma & PTSD
For experiences that ended a long time ago and still arrive in the present.
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Multicultural & Latina Identity
For the parts of yourself that don’t translate the same way in every room you’re in.
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Anger Management
For anger that is costing you the people you care about.
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Codependency
For losing track of where you end and someone else begins.
Questions about Psychodynamic Therapy
Is this the kind of therapy that goes on for years?
It can, and it doesn’t have to. Depth-oriented doesn’t mean open-ended. We’ll talk about what you want from the work and revisit it as we go.
Interested in working together?
Sessions are online, for adults in Pennsylvania and Virginia. $160 per 50 minute session.