Who You’ll Be Working With

I work at the intersection of dynamic psychotherapy and academic sociology. That is what I term the sociodynamic approach. That means I help people explore not just their emotions, but the deeper patterns, histories, and social structures - like gender patterns, social class, and ethnicity - that shape how they act and feel.

In therapy, we often find that what feels like confusion or stuckness is actually a defense—something that once protected you, but now keeps you from accessing what you really feel.

Together, we begin to notice and name those defenses. And underneath them, we often find emotions that have been pushed aside—grief, anger, longing, fear. When those feelings are finally given space, they begin to move. That’s often where relief comes from—not by pushing feelings away, but by finally letting them be felt.

Integrating class, gender and ethnicity

My work draws on psychodynamic therapy, including Jungian ideas and modern intensive methods like ISTDP.
Some sessions are quiet and reflective. Others are focused and emotionally active. I don’t follow a fixed script—we follow what matters most in the moment.

What sets my approach apart is the integration of serious emotional work with real-world context. I've taught university-level classes on gender, class, and ethnicity, and I’ve lived the realities of being between cultures myself.

That means I understand how emotional life is shaped not just by our families, but by social roles, norms, and histories that often go unnamed in therapy.

Working at Different Depths

I work from a depth-oriented perspective, which means that real change isn’t just about developing new thoughts—it’s about understanding what those thoughts are protecting us from, and what they’re trying to manage underneath.

In our work, we may explore different layers—not in a fixed sequence, but as they emerge in your process:

• Patterns in everyday life
  People come to therapy with all kinds of needs. Some are looking for insight into how they respond in everyday life—emotionally, relationally, or professionally. That’s a valid entry point, and we may begin there. But if you’ve already tried advice, self-help, or thought-based approaches, you may be looking for something deeper.

• Biographical and Structural Layer
  That deeper work often begins with your personal and emotional history. How your emotional life has been shaped by your primary relationships - for example your parents, your school, and your partners and friends. Crucially, we are able to investigate where feelings of alienation, missing acceptance and rejection stem from. For some this is clearly located in those supposedly closest to us - but for others, it’s more diffuse. That’s where the structural frame becomes helpful. Family roles, early wounds, patterns of shame, social background, class, gender, culture—these don’t just live in memory. They shape how we relate, defend, and limit ourselves.
  This is often where the deeper therapeutic work begins.

• Existential and symbolic themes
  From there, some clients move into more existential territory: questions of purpose, identity, transformation. This might involve dreams, archetypal material, inner figures, or symbolic patterns that feel deeply personal but somehow universal. This is the “Jungian” layer: Fundamental human questions about existence, meaning, and mortality. We don’t always need to go to that depth. But if that’s where you feel the pull—I work in a way that makes space for it.

Not everyone wants or needs to work across all these layers. But if you’re someone who senses that there’s more beneath the surface—this kind of work may be what you’ve been looking for.