My therapeutic approach draws from psychodynamic and psychoanalytic frameworks. These frameworks look at understanding how our early life experiences, relational dynamics, responses to challenging life situations and unconscious processes shape our sense of who we are and how we live our lives.

Psychodynamic therapy is a depth oriented therapy. Rather than focusing solely on reducing symptoms, psychodynamic approaches aim to understand the underlying cause of symptoms with the hope of working towards long term, sustainable change. I meet with patients on a weekly basis as this creates the foundation for a trusted therapeutic relationship and a deeper exploration of psychic life.

Initial sessions involve discussing presenting issues, the therapeutic process and completing an overview of important events and relationships in a patient’s life. After this I encourage patients to speak freely in sessions. We then work together to build a shared understanding of a patient’s experiences and consider new pathways forward.