Psychotherapy Services
Psychotherapy Services
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I offer virtual therapy for adults across Pennyslvania seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and the patterns that shape their emotional lives and relationships. My work focuses on helping people move out of automatic patterns and develop greater freedom in how they think, feel, and relate to others.
Individual Therapy
Individual Therapy
Individual therapy provides a space to explore the thoughts, emotions, and relationship patterns that may be shaping your life in ways that are not always immediately obvious. Together we work to understand the deeper forces influencing your experiences so that you can move through life with greater clarity and intention.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
My approach is rooted in psychodynamic therapy, which focuses on understanding the underlying patterns that shape how we experience ourselves and our relationships. The goals of psychodynamic therapy go far beyond symptom reduction. This approach emphasizes developing insight into the emotional and relational forces that influence our behavior. Psychodynamic therapy includes the following:
A focus on experiencing the full range of emotions (i.e. putting your feelings into words, acknowledging emotions you may be avoiding, identifying conflicting emotions, etc.)
Exploration of attempts to avoid distressing thoughts and feelings
Identification of recurring themes and patterns
Discussion of past experiences and how those experiences may be continuing to "live on" in the present
A focus on your interpersonal relations - with your parents, spouse, children, co-workers, friends, etc.
A focus on the relationship between therapist and client (many times relational patterns can play out with the therapist, which can be used to explore and rework patterns in vivo)
Exploration of fantasy life (your dreams, daydreams, wishes, desires, and fears, etc.)
Benefits of Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy helps create more space between what happens and how you respond. For many people who struggle with anxiety, people-pleasing, or relationship overwhelm, reactions can feel automatic and hard to control.
Through insight into your emotional patterns and past experiences, you begin to understand why you respond the way you do. That awareness creates room to pause, notice what you’re feeling, and choose something different instead of staying on autopilot.
Research has shown that benefits of psychodynamic therapy continue to increase over time even after treatment has ended (Abbass et al., 2006; Anderson & Lambert, 1995; de Maat et al., 2009; Leichsenring & Rabung, 2008; Leichsenring et al., 2004), while benefits of other types of therapy tend to decline over time (de Maat, Dekker, Schoevers, & de Jonghe, 2006; Gloaguen, Cottraux, Cucharet, & Blackburn, 1998; Hollon et al., 2005; Westen, Novotny, & Thompson-Brenner, 2004).
Logistics
Logistics
Sessions are 55-minutes
Conducted virtually
Available to Pennsylvania residents
Private Pay and Insurance
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