Your Questions Answered
About the Process
Most therapy treats symptoms as problems to eliminate. But your symptoms can't be removed like tumors. When we try to simply get rid of them without understanding their purpose, they resurface in new forms. It's like trying to turn off a lightbulb by blowing on it.
I take a different path. Your symptoms aren't enemies to defeat but messages from the deeper parts of your mind. When you speak freely about whatever comes to mind, you begin to understand what your mind has been trying to tell you all along. Sessions end at breakthrough moments rather than by the clock, and I listen for the patterns in your speech that reveal what you truly want beneath what you think you should want.
This work takes patience and courage, but offers genuine transformation. Symptoms often do resolve, sometimes dramatically, but not through direct attack. They dissolve when you work through the hidden inner conflicts they were expressing. Unlike quick fixes, this changes your fundamental relationship to yourself and your desires.
You speak freely about whatever comes to mind: dreams, memories, daily concerns, or seemingly random thoughts. I listen for patterns, repetitions, contradictions, and the places where your words reveal more than you intended. There's no agenda or exercises. I might offer interpretations that open new avenues, but the real work happens through your own process of speaking and understanding. Sessions end when something essential has emerged, not by the clock.
This work operates through speech and language. The deeper parts of your mind reveal themselves through slips of the tongue, dreams, and the relationship between us regardless of medium. The essential elements remain fully intact online: speaking freely, careful listening, and the structure of our work together.
Many people find online work allows deep engagement with added flexibility. Some even speak more freely from their own space. Physical presence isn't essential when the work happens through language itself.
Insurance requires diagnoses, treatment goals, and measurable outcomes on predetermined timelines, which contradicts the nature of open-ended exploration. While profound changes certainly occur in this work, they emerge organically rather than through prescribed treatment protocols.
Private pay ensures:
- Complete confidentiality without diagnoses in medical records
- Freedom to work at your unconscious's pace
- No session limits or mandated treatment plans
- Deeper commitment through personal investment
- Flexibility in session length and approach
While I can provide receipts for out-of-network benefits, this requires a diagnosis, which some find contradicts the exploratory nature of this work.
Duration and Commitment
There's no standard duration. Some work lasts months, others years. The process concludes when repetitive patterns that brought you here have shifted into new possibilities. You'll sense when sufficient transformation has occurred.
This isn't about meeting external criteria but recognizing a fundamental change in how you experience yourself and your world. The work continues as long as it remains alive and productive for you.
Frequency varies based on what serves your process. Most meet weekly as a baseline, though some periods benefit from more intensive work while others call for spacing. We determine this together, following what the material demands rather than rigid rules.
Is This Right for You?
This work suits those who can tolerate not receiving immediate answers, who are curious about their unconscious, and who sense deeper transformation is possible. If you need immediate symptom relief or concrete solutions, other approaches may serve you better.
Good candidates often feel they're stuck in a repeating cycle, "living someone else's life," or sense their symptoms carry hidden meaning. Most people who benefit from this work have a strong sense that they're ready for something different. They recognize that surface-level changes aren't enough anymore. The consultation helps us explore whether this approach aligns with what you're seeking.
Most of my clients have tried other approaches without lasting success. Many forms of therapy often stays on the surface, focusing on coping strategies or symptom management. If you've felt like previous therapists didn't really understand what was driving your patterns, or if changes didn't stick, that's actually a good sign that you might benefit from this deeper approach.
The fact that other methods haven't worked suggests your unconscious has been trying to tell you something that surface-level interventions can't address. This work is specifically designed for people who need to go deeper than conventional therapy allows.
I work with people, not diagnoses. Whatever brings you here - relationship patterns, anxiety, depression, creative blocks, existential questions - what matters is your willingness to explore your unconscious. The form your suffering takes is less important than your curiosity about what it might mean.
The consultation lets you speak about what brings you and experience how we might work together. This isn't an intake or evaluation. It's a real encounter where you can speak freely while I listen in the particular way that characterizes this work.
By the end, we'll both sense whether this approach fits your needs. The consultation stands alone with no obligation to continue.