Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis can offer a deeper, more intensive form of treatment for eating disorders. It is usually a more frequent treatment, meeting multiple times each week, which creates more space to notice the thoughts, feelings, urges, relationships, and emotional patterns that may be connected to your eating disorder.

The goal is not simply to stop a behavior, although symptom relief matters. It is to understand what the eating disorder may be doing for you: what it may be helping you manage, avoid, communicate, or control when other feelings feel too overwhelming or difficult to put into words.

Over time, psychoanalysis can help you develop a more thoughtful relationship with your body, food, emotions, and sense of self. This work takes time and patience, but it can create room for a deeper and more lasting kind of recovery.

Psychoanalysis can offer a deeper, more intensive space to understand how early relationships may still be shaping your emotional life and relationships today. Meeting more frequently creates room to notice what comes up over time: fears of closeness, rejection, abandonment, anger, dependence, trust, or the wish to pull away.

We will also pay attention to what happens in the relationship between us. This can help us understand, in real time, how you experience care, disappointment, conflict, vulnerability, and connection. The goal is not to force you to relive painful experiences, but to help you build a different, more thoughtful relationship with yourself and others.

Psychoanalysis can be especially helpful when emotional and relationship patterns have been present for a long time, feel difficult to change, or leave you feeling unsure of yourself. The more frequent structure creates additional space to understand intense emotions, relationship dynamics, self-criticism, shame, emptiness, and questions about who you are.

Together, we will become curious about the patterns that may be playing out in your life and in the relationship between us. This can help you better understand how you cope with closeness, conflict, disappointment, anger, and need. Over time, psychoanalysis can support a steadier sense of self and more choice in how you respond to your emotions and relationships.

Psychoanalysis can offer a deeper way to understand anxiety that feels persistent, overwhelming, or difficult to explain. Meeting more frequently gives us time to notice the thoughts, fears, physical reactions, and relationship patterns that may be connected to your anxiety.

The goal is not only to reduce anxiety, though relief matters. Together, we will wonder about what your anxiety may be protecting you from, what it may be helping you manage, and why certain fears can feel so powerful. Over time, you may feel less ruled by anxiety and more able to trust yourself, tolerate uncertainty, and move through life with greater freedom.

Psychoanalysis can offer a deeper, more sustained space to understand depression, particularly when it has felt longstanding, repetitive, or connected to losses that are difficult to name. The increased frequency gives us more room to stay with feelings of sadness, emptiness, shame, self-criticism, hopelessness, or disconnection without rushing to explain them away.

Together, we can think about what may be living underneath the depression: unresolved grief, painful relationships, internal conflict, loss, or parts of yourself that have become difficult to access. The goal is not to force positivity or make you “move on,” but to create the time and space for greater understanding, connection, and the possibility of feeling more alive in your life.