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When the color has gone out of things

Therapy for adults in New York who feel flat, heavy, or far away from themselves.

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Who This Is For

Depression doesn't always look like sadness. The people I see often describe it as flatness. They get up, they work, they show up for their family, and nothing lands. They tell me they have lost their sense of Self.

Some have felt this way for years and call it their personality. Others noticed it after a move, a loss, or a long stretch of building something that took everything they had.

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What We Work On

Low energy
Mornings that feel like wading, and evenings spent recovering from the day.
Self criticism
The inner voice that keeps a running list of everything you got wrong.
Disconnection
Feeling like you are watching your own life through glass.
Lost interest
The music, work, or people you used to care about feeling far away.

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How I Work With Depression

I don't treat depression as something wrong with who you are. I believe the innate self is not wounded, the wounding dislocated us from it. Our work is to find the way back to the part of you that is still intact.

Psychodynamic therapy helps us see the old patterns that keep you small or quiet. Somatic work helps you notice small moments of energy, warmth, or interest in the body, and stay with them long enough for them to grow.

More about my approach

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What Sessions Look Like

We talk first
A complimentary 20 minute phone consultation, so you can hear how I work before you commit to anything.
A steady rhythm
55 minute sessions, weekly or every two weeks, in Rhinebeck, Hudson, or by telehealth in New York.
Small, concrete steps
We notice what helps between sessions, even something as small as a walk or a call to a friend.

What Can Shift

What I am working toward with you is the return of feeling: interest, appetite, a sense of your own preferences. Recreation of the Self is an approach I draw on to explore your sense of who you are.

"It's good to be me."