Depth Therapy for Individuals and Couples
in Chicagoland
Individual Therapy
I utilize relational-psychoanalytic theory to support individuals. This approach explores the unconscious and how it impacts our relationships and patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Together, we’ll address feelings of anxiety or depression, reduce shame, and boost confidence.
I specialize in anxiety, perfectionism, relational challenges, trauma, and identity exploration, including LGBTQ+ affirming care. I also support clients navigating fertility, pregnancy/postpartum, chronic or pelvic pain, and sexual health concerns, and the emotional and relational impact of these experiences. I work with older teens and adults who are seeking deeper understanding, as well as relief.
What I Work With
Relational & Couples Work
Couples rarely fight about what they're fighting about. I work relationally to find the old pattern underneath the current one, so you're not just managing the conflict, but you're finally out of the cycle.
Anxiety & OCD
Anxiety that loops. Thoughts that won't let go. I use a relational-psychoanalytic lens to help you find what the loop is protecting you from, in addition to quieting it's noise.
Trauma
Trauma isn't only memory; it's held in the body, repeating itself in ways talk alone can't reach. We will work at the intersection of the unconscious and the somatic to bring it into awareness.
Fertility & Postpartum
Grief, identity, and pressure that's hard to say out loud. I hold space for what fertility and early parenthood stir up beneath the surface.
Chronic & Pelvic Pain
Pain that doesn't resolve changes how you live in your body. I work with clients navigating chronic and pelvic pain to rebuild a relationship with the body that isn't defined by pain.
LGBTQ+
Identity exploration deserves a therapist who isn't learning as they go. I offer affirming, informed care rooted in psychoanalytic depth, not just support.
Couples Therapy
I work with partners of every relationship structure (monogamous, polyamorous, open, or undefined) who are navigating a life transition, a rupture, or a distance that has been growing for a while.
Many of the couples I see are caught in a cycle: the same painful conversation, again and again, while both people are longing for connection. We look closely at those patterns together, and at where they come from. Often they begin in our families of origin, the first place we learn how to relate to others and how much we can rely on them. We also make room for desire, loss, and the places where intimacy has gone quiet.
My work with couples is shaped by psychoanalytic approaches, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and the Gottman Method.
