Use of Self: A Psychoanalytic Consultation Group
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Have you ever left a session thinking, “What just happened?!”
Maybe you felt stuck with a patient, blindsided by an enactment, or unsure how to make sense of what unfolded in the room. If you find yourself wrestling with these moments, and wondering how to use psychoanalytic and dynamic thinking more effectively, this consultation group may be for you.
In this group, we work with the premise that as a clinician, you are your most important clinical instrument. Together, we will use your lived experience in the room to deepen your clinical perception and sharpen psychodynamic thinking, so that you can listen closely not only to what patients say, but how they say it, what is left unsaid, and what may be communicated unconsciously.
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What to Expect:
Group members will present and discuss clinical cases through a psychoanalytic and psychodynamic lens, staying close to the lived texture of the work while reflecting alongside one another about transference, countertransference, enactment, and projective processes as they emerge.
Rather than treating these concepts as abstract ideas, we will work with them as living phenomena, activated within the clinical material and within our immediate experience of one another in the group. Systems thinking and group process will be applied to deepen attention to repetition, affective shifts, and relational dynamics that often remain outside conscious awareness.
We will attend closely to the here-and-now dynamics of the group itself. The group becomes a parallel field for observation: what unfolds between group members, in response to clinical material, often mirrors, amplifies, or complicates the dynamics present in the consulting room. In this way, the group offers an opportunity to study process as it unfolds in the here and now, rather than only as it is described in the there and then.
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Details:
Format: 75-minute sessions for 8 sessions
Location: In-person in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Time: TBD
Fee: $125 per session
**Group is limited to 5-6 participants to support an intimate learning experience
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About Me
I am a psychoanalytically-oriented clinical psychologist working with individuals, couples, and groups, with a focus on unconscious process, relational dynamics, and the clinician’s use of self as a central instrument of clinical work.
My approach is grounded in the idea that clinical understanding emerges not only from what is said in the room, but from attention to affect, enactment, and the subtle movements of the relational field. I am particularly interested in how clinicians can develop greater precision in tracking their own internal responses as part of the clinical data.
Alongside my clinical practice, I lead consultation groups focused on deepening psychodynamic thinking through close attention to case material and group process. I also work with leaders, groups, and organizations to understand and navigate unconscious and conscious dynamics that shape how people work together.
I also an advanced candidate at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
Let’s schedule a 30-minute video consultation to explore fit