Individual Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Los Feliz & Highland Park
I provide psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults in Los Feliz and Highland Park, serving clients across Northeast Los Angeles who are seeking more than symptom management. Many of the people who find their way to my office are thoughtful, capable, and outwardly high-functioning — yet privately feel stuck in repeating patterns of anxiety, depression, relational conflict, or self-criticism that insight alone has not resolved.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a depth-oriented form of treatment that attends not only to what is happening in your life now, but to the underlying structures that organize experience — the ways you relate, defend, long, and protect yourself. Rather than offering strategies alone, we work to understand the meanings beneath symptoms and the emotional logic of recurring patterns.
What Makes Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Different
In analytic work, change does not come primarily from advice or techniques. It emerges from sustained attention to your inner life within the context of a consistent therapeutic relationship.
We pay close attention to:
Recurrent relational dynamics
Emotional patterns that feel disproportionate or confusing
The tension between autonomy and dependency
The ways early experiences continue to shape present expectations
What unfolds between us in the room
This last element — the therapeutic relationship itself — is central. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy understands that the ways you relate to others will inevitably appear in therapy. When approached with care and curiosity, these moments become opportunities for genuine transformation rather than repetition.
Who This Work Is For
I believe that psychoanalytic treatment is for everyone. Many of my clients identify as LGBTQ+, and my practice is queer- and trans-affirming. I also work with individuals reflecting on race, culture, and power as they shape lived experience.
Structure & Frequency
Depth-oriented psychotherapy requires consistency. I typically meet with individual clients once or twice per week for 50-minute sessions in my Los Feliz or Highland Park offices. This frequency allows the work to move beyond surface-level problem-solving and into deeper, more enduring change.
Where clinically appropriate, telehealth sessions are available, though I prioritize in-person treatment whenever possible, as I find it strengthens the therapeutic process.
Feel free to read more on my policies and procedures here.
The Aim of the Work
The aim of psychoanalytic psychotherapy is not simply relief — though relief often comes. It is increased freedom: greater flexibility in relationships, a more stable sense of self, and the capacity to tolerate complexity without becoming overwhelmed by it.
If you are considering beginning individual psychotherapy in Northeast Los Angeles and are curious whether this form of work might be a good fit, you can reach out here for a brief consultation.