Consultation for Clinicians
I offer reflective consultation for therapists and analysts who want to think more deeply about their clinical work. Consultation brings together psychoanalytic thinking and close attention to the lived experience of therapy: the therapist's use of self, countertransference, enactments, and the imaginative process that deepens clinical understanding.
Areas of focus
- Trauma work: tolerating fear, not-knowing, and intensity in the room
- Early-career clinicians developing a psychoanalytic way of working
- Deepening treatment, including moving toward higher-frequency work
- Writing about clinical work: case write-ups, papers, and presentations
Formats
- Individual consultation: an ongoing relationship, or a brief, focused series around a particular case, impasse, or professional question
- Consultation groups: small, ongoing groups of clinicians. If you're interested in joining or forming one, please let me know.
- By video or phone, or in person in Lake Oswego
My approach is collegial, rigorous, and grounded in respect for your existing clinical wisdom. Together we think about what unfolds in the room, and what it might be asking of you.
I teach at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center and Institute and mentor in the Fellowship Program at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis.
