Our Services
We offer psychoanalytic psychotherapy to adolescents and adults who struggle with things like depression and anxiety; relationship issues; problems related to motivation, creativity, resiliency; those affected by trauma; peoples who want to understand themselves more deeply; problems related to identity; and issues related to sexual identity and gender.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy focuses on feeling, identifying, and tolerating emotion; identifying recurring patterns in our lives; discussing our past and how it may have brought us to be who we are today; understanding some of our current and longstanding patterns in relationships; exploring our fantasy/imagination; and using the interactions in therapy to understand ourselves better.
The essence of psychoanalytic therapy is understanding and experiencing those parts of ourselves that are unknown: things that get in our way, or may cause us to be or feel some way that confuses us or causes us pain. This process also allows solutions to our concerns to arise naturally.
About Our Practice
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We work with individuals (adolescents and adults), couples, and families from diverse backgrounds who are looking for therapeutic support.
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Depending on the therapist you are working with, we offer sessions both online and in-office.
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Session fees range from $150 - $300 and are dependent on length of session and therapist. Sliding scale options may be available for those experiencing financial hardship. Please reach out to discuss sliding scale options and payment adjustment.
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We are currently In-Network with Aetna and are considered Out-of-Network providers for all other insurance panels. This means that while we do not work directly with your insurance company (with the exception of Aetna), we do provide a monthly superbill for sessions. We aim to educate clients on how best to utilize their out-of-network benefits to receive insurance reimbursement and are happy to provide information on how to submit claims. Typically our clients receive between 50%-80% reimbursement of the session fee.
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People choose to start psychotherapy at various times, usually based on the feeling that something needs to change. Many people simply want help working through something painful and need someone who can help. For others, it may be when something causes them to become more aware of themselves, and they want to dig in deeper, and understand themselves better. Sometimes it may be with great resistance, when one is sick and tired of suffering and simply demand something better for oneself. Whatever the circumstance, the best time to enter therapy is when it feels like the right step, at which point you might speak to a few therapists and see with whom you might feel comfortable.
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Therapy helps by allowing us space and time to slow down, look deeper inside ourselves, and face whatever we find. Substantial research in neurobiology and psychotherapy indicates that (for a large portion of people) therapy helps us rewire our brain so that we can feel, identify, and tolerate our emotional life, have less symptoms, a greater sense of meaning, make better use of our strengths, accomplish our goals more easily, and improve our relationships. Much of this occurs over time through active participation in therapy, and the integration of new learning and new patterns into our day to day life.
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Therapy is not without risk and downside. The process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy takes time and commitment, and requires one be willing to feel things that are painful. Much care is taken to progress at the appropriate speed, and assess risks as time goes, to ensure that patients get the appropriate level of care they need.
Connect with us
If you are interested in scheduling a free consultation with one of our therapists, are interesting in collaborating, or have any questions, please feel free to reach out.