As a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, I help Missouri individuals, couples, and families in St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, Kirksville, West Plains, St. Genevieve, (and beyond) navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, relationship difficulties, PTSD, estranged adult children, depression, trauma, ADHD, identity, and anxiety in their relationships with self and others.

Life is challenging. Even when we are doing our best, we may still  experience anxiety, depression, stress, moodiness, and difficulties in  our relationships. Some of those feelings originate from experiences we  remember clearly, and want to understand and organize; other feelings  seem to come from nowhere and despite our best efforts, interfere with  our feeling better and doing the things we want to do and being the  person we want to be.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy can help. You need a place that feels comfortable and safe, a person  whom you trust to be empathetic, supportive, thoughtful, challenging  without being  judgmental, and curious about your life, someone who  cares.  You are the expert of your life's experiences and I'll trust you  to share those with me as we build our relationship.

I will respect your inherent dignity and worth, and understand how the  external world through which you move shapes and impacts your internal  life's  experiences and relationships with yourself and others.

Our work together will not just be me giving you coping skills or helping you identify your triggers. While truly helpful, we'll work on why your mind is being triggered--the where, the when, all the associations and experiences to which your mind so quickly moves. You will slowly develop awareness and recognition before you reach a state of sadness, fear, overwhelm, isolation, terror.

My online psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice is dedicated to helping Missouri residents experience greater quality of life, kindness for themselves, connectedness with others, and a sense of being good enough.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is an evidence-based talk therapy.  You will be supported  and encouraged to speak freely about anything  that comes to your mind. There are no worksheets; there is no homework.  We explore recognizing, acknowledging, understanding, expressing, and  naming your pleasant, unpleasant, and contradictory feelings and  emotions. 

The psychoanalytic approach works to improve the quality of your interpersonal experiences and relationships—how you feel and experience yourself and others, and how others experience you. 

You  will learn to consider, connect, and resolve your current challenges  and change your behavior in current relationships through a deep  exploration and analysis of earlier experiences and emotions. Important  will be recognizing how those past experiences and emotions are showing  up today—however obvious or obscure—and how they affect your current decision-making, feelings, actions, and relationships.

Exploring painful parts of our lived experience can be difficult. Doing so takes time and developing trust. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy prioritizes trust in the therapeutic relationship, that the change you  seek is within you, and that repair comes in trusted community with each  other.

Psychoanalytic therapy isn't about helping you manage your to-do list; it's about the deep why that managing your day feels so unachievable, so heavy.

Many Missourians come to me feeling ready to move beyond  an ever-growing (and just another thing to organize and manage) list of behavioral coping techniques. They are ready to feel alive and connected to themselves and others; they are ready to leave behind the sense of estrangement they feel inside and experience with others.

Rather than a focus on surface level tools (that have their place), our work together will be on depth and meaning to inform active, meaningful changes.

If you live in Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, Joplin, Columbia, Kirksville or anywhere in Missouri, and reading this creates even the smallest ember of hope and kindness for yourself, reach out. 

Use my contact form below. Your message is confidential and will reach my inbox. I'll reply and we'll schedule an initial phone call to talk more together about what you're experiencing and how working together could be helpful.