in-person psychotherapy in downtown chicago
talk therapy that gets to the root
psychodynamic psychotherapy & psychoanalysis for teens & adults
What story are your symptoms trying to tell? Before we’re able to put our deepest struggles into words, our symptoms speak for us, often in the form of unintentional or unwelcome actions. Maybe you find yourself caught in repeating relationship cycles or self-defeating thought spirals. Or perhaps you notice that you’re acting out anxiously in ways that you can’t yet explain. One way to address these patterns is to listen to our symptoms as clues about hidden messages we carry within us. That process is at the core of a kind of therapy that you might consider: a therapy designed to treat your symptoms by translating them into words. Read more
specialities
• loss & grief
• self-esteem
• borderline personality disorder
• psychosis
• bipolar disorder
• addiction
• anxiety
• relationship issues
• trauma & complex PTSD
• depression
• life transitions
• gender & sexuality
about me
My interest in psychotherapy emerged out of my studies in philosophy and psychology at the University of Chicago. I’ve worked with youth and adults in community-based residential treatment settings, schools, and outpatient group practice. I often work with people who experience (or have experienced) acute and chronic concerns including relationship issues, anxiety, depression, complex trauma and PTSD, grief, sexual and physical violence, addiction, and/or psychosis. I’m currently training to become a certified psychoanalyst.
‘We bring our patterns with us wherever we go, into every relationship.…This is the human condition: we bring our patterns. The thing that makes psychotherapy psychotherapy, and not just another relationship, is that we do something different…We create the conditions where it becomes possible to notice the patterns, to recognize them, to put words to them, and understand them…Out of that experience...comes the freedom to do things differently’
— JONATHAN SHEDLER, PHD