Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Adults)

Psychodynamic psychotherapy focuses on understanding the emotional and relational patterns that shape a person's inner life and relationships. Attention is given not only to current concerns, but to how past experiences and unconscious expectations influence present functioning. This approach is especially helpful for individuals who feel stuck or burdened by recurring emotional difficulties.

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis offers a more intensive and sustained form of treatment for individuals seeking more fundamental psychological change. Through the continuity of analytic work, unconscious patterns can emerge within the therapeutic relationship itself, allowing for increased insight, emotional freedom, and structural change over time.

Emotional, Psychological & Forensic Assessment

I provide emotional and psychological assessments for children, adolescents, and adults. Assessments may be sought to better understand emotional functioning and internal experience, or when psychotherapy feels stalled and greater clarity is needed. In these situations, assessment can help clarify underlying dynamics and support treatment moving forward.

My forensic background includes experience conducting several different types of forensic evaluations in both hospital settings and private practice, including risk assessments and psychosexual evaluations. My current forensic work focuses primarily on mitigation-of-sentence evaluations. These evaluations seek to provide a fuller understanding of the developmental, psychological, relational, and psychiatric factors that may contribute to a person's functioning and life history.

My psychoanalytic training is particularly valuable in this work, as it allows for careful attention to personality structure, trauma, unconscious dynamics, developmental experience, and the emotional meanings that shape behavior over time. I approach forensic assessment with the same emphasis on psychological understanding, nuance, and clinical depth that informs my therapeutic work.

Fees & Insurance

I am out-of-network with insurance. For most patients, I provide documentation that can be submitted for out-of-network reimbursement.

In some circumstances I am able to bill insurance directly as an out-of-network provider. I am an authorized out-of-network provider with TRICARE and can bill TRICARE directly in some situations. Direct billing arrangements with other insurance plans may also be possible depending on the plan, and can be discussed during the initial consultation.

Fees for psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and assessment are discussed during the initial consultation.