Clinical Consultation

Clinical Consultation

When two minds come together, we create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. This collaboration results in a much broader understanding of each case. As a long time practitioner and teacher of psychoanalysis, I provide consultation for those wishing to augment their clinical skills and their knowledge of theory and technique. Clinicians of all orientations and levels of experience are welcome. I honor each person's unique therapeutic voice. My priority is to help therapists become more comfortable with being themselves while being informed by a sound theoretical rationale.

As a Modern Psychoanalyst, I place special emphasis on the therapist's use of their feelings as an indispensable tool in understanding the patient. I also help train clinicians to work with problems that stem from the pre-verbal period of life by using carefully chosen interventions called “emotional communication.” This is a form of connection at the deepest emotional level that also protects the patient’s ego. It bypasses more intellectually oriented relating that can go straight over the patient’s head and sometimes evoke defensiveness. I also help supervisees to constructively and progressively reverse the myriad ways patients turn aggression against themselves.

I work with therapists to become adept at identifying and working with Treatment Destructive Resistances, those behaviors of patients that threaten to end the treatment prematurely. Effective work with "TDR's" enables the therapist to keep patients in treatment which also results in a deepening of the treatment and bettering the patient’s life in the outside world.

This work results in building and maintaining a successful and powerful practice.