My theoretical orientation is rooted in psychodynamic psychotherapy, with a particular emphasis on attachment theory.
This framework explores how our early relationships with caregivers shape our unconscious patterns and influence our present-day behaviors and relationships.
Alongside long-term, insight-oriented work, I also integrate:
These approaches offer practical tools and strategies
for coping with more immediate challenges and fostering change.
My approach is grounded in years of personal and professional training in psychodynamic and attachment-based therapy.
I view this method as an ethical, compassionate way of listening to and responding to human suffering.
Psychoanalytic work explores unconscious truths—often inherited through family lineage and culture—as they manifest in both the psyche and the body.
I work collaboratively with clients to explore the history behind their challenges and translate those insights into a greater capacity to cope with current and future difficulties.
Therapy with me is a journey toward self-discovery—identifying who you are, what you want, and what has stood in the way of achieving your goals.
Through a meaningful and empathic relationship, our work fosters self-awareness, emotional resilience, and personal growth.
Psychodynamic therapy is a form of depth-oriented psychotherapy that focuses on understanding how past experiences, unconscious processes, and internal conflicts influence current behavior, thoughts, and emotions. It stems from psychoanalytic theory but is typically less intensive and more focused on present-day functioning. It aims to help individuals gain insight into their unconscious motivations and desires, often through exploring past experiences, particularly early childhood relationships, and unresolved conflicts, to understand how they influence behaviour and relationships.This exploration can reveal hidden emotions and patterns of behaviour that may be impacting their present life.
Much of our behaviour is driven by unconscious motives, fears, and desires formed early in life.Our sense of self and relational patterns are largely shaped by early attachment relationships (especially with caregivers).
We tend to repeat familiar emotional patterns, even when they are self-defeating—this is known as repetition compulsion. By bringing unconscious material into awareness, individuals can gain insight, make meaning, and gradually change entrenched patterns.
By bringing these unconscious processes to conscious awareness, individuals can develop a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships, ultimately leading to personal growth and improved well-being.
Psychodynamic couples therapy helps couples by exploring their unconscious patterns, and emotional dynamics. Desires are understood as potentially unconscious and deeply rooted in past experiences, influencing current relationship dynamics. The goal is to break negative cycles, and foster stronger emotional bonds. It focuses on understanding how past relationship experiences, including childhood, and attachment styles, influence current interactions. The therapy helps couples explore these hidden desires, understand their impact, and develop healthier ways of communicating and relating.
By bringing these unconscious patterns to light, couples can develop greater self-awareness and make more conscious choices in their relationships. By understanding unconscious patterns, couples can communicate more effectively, express their needs and emotions more clearly, and reduce defensiveness and blame. The therapist works collaboratively with the couple to understand their relationship patterns and develop strategies for positive change.
Psychodynamic Therapy for Families is an approach rooted in psychoanalytic theory that focuses on unconscious processes, early developmental experiences, and relational patterns within the family system. It explores how unresolved conflicts, defense mechanisms, and attachment patterns—often originating in childhood—affect current family dynamics and relationships.
Family members relate to one another based on internalized images (“objects”) from early relationships—often parents or significant caregivers. On realigning family structures to create healthier interactions and fair and balanced boundaries.
This approach also helps family members recognize dysfunctional patterns, improve parent-child relationships, and build a more supportive family unit.
Multi-generational exploration: Discussion of family history, dynamics, roles, and alliances.
Psychodynamic therapy for parenting focuses on exploring unconscious processes, past experiences, and attachment patterns influence a parent’s current behaviors, emotions, and relationships with their children to improve parenting skills and the parent-child relationship.
It helps parents understand how their own unresolved issues and childhood experiences might influence the deeper emotional dynamics at play in their parenting style and fosters healthier, more reflective interactions with their children.
Psychodynamic therapy’s emphasis on early relationships is particularly beneficial for patients with addiction, as unresolved attachment issues and relational patterns often drive substance use. Many patients turn to addictive substances to cope with unmet emotional needs or painful past experiences
Addiction is seen not as the primary problem, but as a symptom of deeper emotional or developmental struggles.
Substance use may help manage or mask unconscious pain, shame, or inner conflict.
Disruptions in early attachments (e.g., neglect, trauma, inconsistent caregiving) often contribute to emotional dysregulation and later addictive behaviors.
Addiction may function as a maladaptive defense — for example, to avoid grief, rage, or anxiety.
Insight into one’s inner life fosters long-term recovery by reducing the need for substances as emotional regulators. This approach helps individuals explore the emotional and relational roots of their substance use or compulsive behaviors.
Psychodynamic perspectives on immigration highlight the complex interplay between an individual’s past experiences, unconscious desires, and the challenges of adapting to a new culture. Immigration, from this viewpoint, is not just a geographical move but a profound psychological journey involving shifts in identity, relationships, and the experience of loss and mourning
Immigration often involves multiple layers of loss:
Psychodynamic therapy helps individuals mourn these losses consciously, often linking them to earlier attachment ruptures or separations, which may unconsciously amplify the distress.
Migrants often struggle with identity shifts:
Therapy explores how internalized family dynamics, cultural values, and early identifications shape self-perception, and how these may be challenged or fragmented by migration.
Immigration is inherently an attachment-related event—marked by separation from primary figures, places, and internalized safety. Psychodynamic work can help:
Immigrant families may carry historical traumas (war, persecution, poverty) that shape family narratives and dynamics. These can manifest in:
Psychodynamic therapy aims to make the unconscious transmission of trauma conscious, creating space for new meanings and relational patterns.
In unfamiliar or hostile environments, individuals may use defenses such as:
Understanding these defenses can help clients move toward integration, rather than fragmentation.