Teaching

Case Consultation and Treatment for Mental Health Professionals.

If you are a therapist and would like to deepen the work you do with your patients or if you are interested in learning more about yourself through treatment, I would look forward to speaking with you.

I provide both individual and group case consultation to mental health professionals. I am passionate about psychoanalytic psychotherapy and how it changed my life and has changed the lives of my patients.

I teach and supervise students as well as provide consultation to experienced therapists who would like to increase their skill level and work psychodynamically with their patients. I receive support and guidance in my practice through ongoing consultations with a senior psychologist/psychoanalyst. I have been through an intense-long-term psychoanalytic treatment myself. I firmly believe that therapists must become and remain aware of their own issues and imperfections in order to provide the best treatment to others.

All people fall on a continuum of mental health, including patients and their therapists. How we were raised, our past and present environments, our losses, all influence our level of mental health.

The training to become a therapist is grueling and often brings an awareness, for the first time, of the specific reason behind a student’s choice of profession. Perhaps you went into the profession to help others, or you are curious about why you are a certain way. Did you enter the profession as a means of trying to understand dysfunctional dynamics in your family? Or to learn why you have problems with intimacy? Are you a gifted healer with a history of trauma?

All of these are legitimate reasons to go into the profession provided that these experiences are acknowledged, understood and addressed. Furthermore, having had these life experiences can enhance your ability to help others. On the other hand, not receiving treatment can lead to a cycle of frustration for both therapist and patient.