The treatment I provide takes two forms: psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. You may wonder what distinguishes one from the other.

While both forms of treatment are informed by the same theoretical approach, they differ in intensity, frequency, and often in modality. Psychodynamic psychotherapy typically takes place once or twice per week and involves the patient and the therapist sitting across from one another, face-to face. Psychoanalysis, by contrast, usually takes place at a frequency of three to five times per week, and often involves the patient lying down on a couch, facing away from the psychoanalyst.

Both forms of treatment are rooted in the Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory and seek to address the difficulties and challenges patients may be experiencing in their lives.

Psychoanalysis, however, is a deeper, a more intensive and far-reaching form of treatment. More than an immediate focus on symptoms, it aims to explore the underlying causes and the ways in which enduring patterns of character may be implicated in a patient’s difficulties.

Over time, psychoanalysis can support deep and lasting changes, allowing for a greater degree of psychic freedom and an increased capacity to find satisfaction in love and work.