Analytic psychotherapy is a depth-oriented way of listening to what is spoken and what quietly lives beneath the words. It invites curiosity about patterns, emotions, dreams, and relationships as they unfold over time, helping bring unconscious meanings into awareness. The work is less about quick solutions and more about understanding, integration, and lasting inner change.

Depth orientation refers to an approach to therapy that listens beneath the surface of experience, with particular attention to desire—what draws, stirs, resists, and longs within. Drawing from existential, phenomenological, psychoanalytic, Jungian, and transpersonal traditions, it explores how conscious and unconscious desires shape meaning, identity, and relationship. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, this work honors lived experience, symbolic life, and the deeper movements of the psyche, inviting desire to be understood as a vital force guiding insight, vitality, and transformation.

When therapy is billed to insurance, there is a kind of translation that happens behind the scenes. The deeper work we do together—coming to understand long-standing relational patterns, inner conflicts, or how emotions move through you—has to be described in more practical, surface-level terms for insurance purposes.

So while our focus in the room may be on meaning, desire, and inner experience, the paperwork may refer to things like reducing distress, improving daily functioning, or increasing emotional steadiness. This doesn’t change the nature of the work itself; it simply allows the depth-oriented process to be held within a system that requires concrete language to support access to care.

Depth-oriented therapy is, in fact, evidence-based. A substantial body of research in psychodynamic and depth-informed psychology shows its effectiveness for conditions such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and relational difficulties. Studies consistently demonstrate that clients experience meaningful and lasting improvement, with benefits that often continue after treatment ends.

This approach is evidence-based because it relies on well-established therapeutic factors supported by research, including the quality of the therapeutic relationship, emotional processing, insight, and increased self-understanding. Depth-oriented therapy also uses ongoing assessment and clinical observation to guide treatment, ensuring the work is responsive, intentional, and accountable.

By integrating empirical research with individualized, relational care, depth-oriented therapy meets evidence-based standards while addressing the complexity of human experience beyond symptom management alone.

In addition to depth-oriented work, our sessions will integrate conventional, evidence-based approaches to support clarity, stability, and practical change. These include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients build psychological flexibility and align actions with values; Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to strengthen emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness; and Motivational Interviewing (MI) to support change through collaboration, autonomy, and self-directed motivation.

Attachment-based and somatic-informed practices are also used to address relational patterns and nervous system regulation. These approaches are grounded in research and applied thoughtfully, offering clients concrete tools alongside deeper exploratory work—ensuring therapy is both effective and accessible.

The word “patient” comes from the Latin patiens, meaning “one who endures” or “one who suffers.” At its root, it carries the sense of being able to bear what arises, to stay with experience even when it is difficult or confusing.

In analytic psychotherapy, this meaning resonates deeply. Being a “patient” is not about passivity or simply receiving treatment—it is about engaging in a courageous, attentive process of exploring your inner life. It involves staying with thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories as they emerge, even those that may be uncomfortable, and allowing them to reveal patterns, meanings, and possibilities for growth. In this way, the term reminds us that therapy is a shared journey: one of endurance, curiosity, and the slow unfolding of understanding, rather than a race toward quick fixes.

My rate is $125.

However, I accept Aetna and Regence insurance. I also offer sliding-scale rates for those who qualify.

Payments can be made through the Jane App (my EHR) or via Venmo, making billing flexible and accessible to support your care.

I am presently also working with Thrizer (patients may also initiate support with Thrizer) to see if other insurers may reimburse with a superbill. I am happy to see how we can make this work.

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We may meet once or twice a week.

Working with me is a slow, reflective, and depth-oriented process. We create space to listen beneath the surface of daily life, attending to recurring patterns, emotional themes, and moments of desire or tension that carry deeper meaning. Rather than rushing toward solutions, we stay with experience as it unfolds, allowing understanding to emerge over time.

Grounded in psychoanalytic and Jungian traditions, the work includes exploring the unconscious through dreams, symbolism, relational dynamics, and practices such as active imagination. Alongside this, we attend to the body as a source of knowing—tracking sensations, affect, and embodied responses as they arise—so insight is not only understood intellectually but felt and integrated. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a living context for this work, supporting depth, integration, and lasting inner change.

Tarot can offer insight by giving form and image to what is already moving within you. Rather than predicting outcomes, the cards act as symbols that engage the unconscious—bringing feelings, desires, conflicts, and patterns into clearer awareness.

Through a Jungian lens, tarot works much like dreams or active imagination: the images invite reflection, association, and meaning-making. What you notice, feel drawn to, or resist in the cards often reveals something about your inner landscape. In this way, tarot becomes a mirror—helping you listen more closely to yourself and gain perspective on where you are, what is emerging, and what may be asking for attention.

A non-psychotherapeutic dream analysis session is a reflective, exploratory conversation focused on the images, symbols, and emotional tone of a dream, rather than on diagnosis or treatment. The session invites curiosity and meaning-making, allowing the dream to be approached as a creative and symbolic expression of inner life.

Using approaches drawn from Jungian psychology, mythology, and symbolic inquiry, the dream is explored through personal associations, archetypal themes, and felt sense. Even outside of therapy, this process can be beneficial by offering insight, perspective, and a deeper relationship to one’s inner world. Many people find that dream analysis supports self-reflection, creativity, decision-making, and a greater sense of connection to their own intuition and imagination.