Clinical Consultation for Licensed Therapists
For independently licensed therapists seeking a thoughtful, collaborative space to explore individual psychotherapy cases and deepen a relational psychoanalytic approach across your practice.
Working Together
Clinical consultation offers space to slow down and think carefully about complex treatments, relational dynamics, and what may be unfolding between you and your client.
I have a particular interest in helping therapists use countertransference, enactments, and the relationship in the room as sources of clinical information. We may explore what your client evokes in you, the roles you feel pulled toward, and how familiar relational patterns may be taking shape within the treatment.
For therapists who are less accustomed to working this way, consultation can help make the relationship itself more visible and clinically useful. What happens between you and your client may offer opportunities for deeper understanding and for new relational experiences that support meaningful change.
My approach is active, collaborative, and non-hierarchical. Consultation may focus on a particular case or clinical question, or support you in strengthening a relational psychodynamic orientation across your practice.
Areas of Focus
Consultation may include:
Complex or longstanding individual treatments
Treatment impasses or feeling stuck
Strong, confusing, or conflicting countertransference
Transference and relational enactments
Attachment and object-relational patterns
Rupture and repair
Dependency, anger, withdrawal, idealization, or devaluation
Boundaries, self-disclosure, and therapist participation
Becoming more active and relational without becoming intrusive
Integrating psychodynamic, somatic, and parts-based approaches
Ethical or clinically complicated decisions
Strengthening a relational psychodynamic orientation across your practice
Why Consultation Matters
I love clinical consultation. It may feel familiar to the supervision you completed while working toward independent licensure, but the conversation is different once you have developed your own experience, judgment, and clinical identity.
Consultation is less about learning the basic responsibilities of practice or having your work formally evaluated. It gives you a collegial space to examine the subtleties of treatment, including what may be happening outside awareness, how you are being affected by the work, and where greater depth or freedom may be possible.
I believe consultation benefits therapists at every stage of practice. Licensure marks an important threshold, but becoming a skilled, seasoned, and thoughtful clinician continues throughout your career. That growth requires places where you can question your assumptions, tolerate uncertainty, and allow another clinical mind to help you see what may be difficult to see alone.
I have sought consultation throughout my own years in private practice and expect that I always will. It gives my work a responsible and humble container and helps me remain accountable to the complexity of the people who trust me with their treatment.
Structure
Consultation may focus on a single case, treatment impasse, or clinical question. It may also support the development of your clinical orientation and methods across your broader practice.
Meetings can be scheduled once, for a focused period of work, or on an ongoing basis when useful.
Clinical consultation is available to independently licensed therapists working with adults in individual psychotherapy. It is not formal supervision and does not fulfill requirements for licensure, employment, or psychoanalytic training.
Fee
55-minute consultation: $160