Depth therapy in San Francisco

You’ve read the books. You understand your history. Yet the same painful patterns keep repeating.

Knowing your story isn’t the same as feeling differently. Real change doesn’t happen by intellectualizing your life from the neck up. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy works where logic and self-help hit a wall: with the unspoken fears, the quiet defenses, and the submerged longings running beneath your radar, including how they show up right between us in the room.

Our sessions are open-ended. You bring whatever is on your mind, and we follow the thread together. My job is to stay emotionally present, listen closely, name the things you might be talking around, and actively think alongside you. Together, we catch your defenses in real time and shed light on what stays hidden. Over time, that shared inquiry creates an internal shift that techniques alone cannot produce, opening the way to new emotional experiences that reshape how you relate to yourself and the people in your life.

To foster a deeper immersion, meeting multiple times a week is common, keeping the work continuous. An adjusted per-session fee may be available to make that continuity sustainable.

We might be a good fit if:

You’re tired of knowing why, without feeling different
You can analyze your history and patterns well, yet you still find yourself stuck in the same painful loops.
You’re ready to look beneath your usual defenses
You want an honest space to notice how you protect yourself or pull back—including how those habits show up right in the therapy room.
You’re curious about what truly shapes you
You want to understand your drives, strengths, limitations, and emotional landscape—not just patch over surface pain, but reshape how you live and experience yourself.
You want to feel more connected in your relationships
You’re tired of keeping people at arm’s length or repeating the same dynamics with partners, friends, or family.
You’re open to a deeper commitment
You know lasting change doesn’t happen overnight, and you’re willing to meet once or multiple times a week to keep the work moving.

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