How does emotionally focused therapy work and how can it help?
Emotionally focused therapy helps us understand the deeper emotional needs, fears, and attachment patterns that shape how you relate to yourself and others. Often, the struggles we experience in relationships are not simply about communication problems, but about longing, protection, fear, vulnerability, and unmet needs.
In therapy, we gently explore the emotional patterns that repeat in your relationships — such as withdrawing, pursuing, shutting down, people-pleasing, becoming reactive, or feeling unseen. Rather than judging these responses, we look at what they are trying to protect and what they may be asking for.
This approach can help you become more aware of your emotional world, communicate with more honesty, and develop more secure and connected relationships. It can also support healing around attachment wounds, grief, intimacy struggles, and long-standing relational pain. The goal is not just to think differently, but to experience yourself and your relationships in a more connected, compassionate, and emotionally alive way.
My work is depth-oriented, relational, and mind-body centered. That means we don’t just focus on managing symptoms — we listen for what your struggles are trying to say. I draw from Jungian and psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment theory, somatic awareness, and dreamwork. Together, we pay attention to patterns, emotions, relationships, and the symbolic language of the psyche. Therapy becomes a place where insight, emotional experience, and embodied awareness come together. I see therapy as a collaborative process. The relationship itself matters, and change often happens through genuine understanding and meeting — sometimes for the first time. I’m a licensed psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience in private practice. I'm currently in training with JPA in New York for archetypal psychoanalytic psychotherapy and have trained in EMDR, IFS, RLT, CBT, Hakomi, and more. I offer individual and group psychotherapy, and working with adults across a wide range of life concerns.
