The processes of well-being and change are different for everyone. Some people are content as they are. Some recognize a need to move in a different direction and are able to freely change course. Yet others know that something needs to change, but are at a loss for what, how, or why.
Psychotherapy can be for anyone, at any stage of life. People come with depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, and longstanding patterns that feel impossible to break. Others come simply with a sense that they are not living as fully or as freely as they could.
Whatever brings you here, the work is the same: careful conversation, honest observation, and a genuine effort to understand what is driving you. My approach is informed by psychoanalytic thinking. Symptoms cause real suffering, and that suffering is meaningful; it is pointing somewhere. Following it to its roots, rather than simply quieting it, is what makes genuine change possible. We will pay attention not just to what you say, but to how you say it, what you avoid, and what keeps reoccurring despite your best efforts.
This kind of therapy moves at a thoughtful pace. It does not offer scripts or strategies to memorize. What it offers instead is growing self-knowledge, and with that, a greater capacity to make choices that reflect who you actually want to be.