wtf is life
Psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and the general bewilderment of being alive. A psychoanalyst, teacher, and patient exploring the state of us — and why we do the things we swore we'd stop doing.
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I'm a psychoanalyst who thinks therapy shouldn't require a glossary
I treat patients, I teach, I supervise, and I host a show about the brain, the unconscious, and whatever else I can't stop thinking about. The through-line is a belief that esoteric ideas about the mind — the ones that actually change how you see yourself — shouldn't live behind a paywall of jargon and graduate degrees.
My clinical work is psychoanalytic and developmental. That means I'm less interested in managing your symptoms than in understanding why they showed up in the first place — and helping you build capacities that, for whatever reason, never had the chance to develop. It's slower work. It's also the kind that tends to stick.
I don't have it figured out either. But that's sort of the point.
Read the full story →Licensed in New York & New Jersey
Meaningful Therapy Inc.
Therapy is slow, weird, and worth it.
You don't need a crisis to start.
I see adults, couples, and families for psychoanalytic and developmental therapy in New Jersey and New York. Telehealth and in-person. The first conversation is a 15-minute call to figure out whether this work — and this particular therapist — might be the right fit.
Learn about the practice →Your kid is already a whole person.
I work with them that way.
I see children and adolescents in New Jersey and New York. Child analytic work starts from the assumption that kids are doing their best with what they've got — and that parents are part of the treatment, not bystanders to it. The first conversation is a 15-minute call to figure out whether this work fits your family.
Learn about working with kids →I also teach, supervise, and consult
I lead trainings for clinicians, supervise therapists in private practice and institutes, and consult with schools, universities, and organizations on the unconscious life of the people inside them. Psychoanalytic ideas work outside the consulting room too — they just need someone willing to translate.
Learn about teaching & consulting →Recent episodes
What makes couple's counseling actually therapeutic — with Catherine Jensen on appreciating the relationship itself as something to be understood, felt, and clarified.
How our fears, taboos, and censors perpetuate the public health crisis of suicide — with Dr. Kristian Kemtrup.
What psychological testing actually is, the seductive appeal of diagnoses, and ground truth in the person — with Dr. Graham Husick.
The work, when it works: to perceive what was once imperceptible.
Your interior life matters. Your feelings are information.
Growth is grief with somewhere to go.