Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a depth-oriented, collaborative approach to therapy that focuses on helping you better understand yourself, your emotions, and your relationships. Rather than concentrating only on symptom relief or short-term solutions, this approach also explores the underlying patterns and experiences that shape how you think, feel, and relate to others. Over time, increased awareness can bring greater clarity, self-compassion, and emotional freedom.

With this approach, we look at both your present-day concerns and how past experiences—especially early relationships—continue to influence your inner world. These experiences can form unconscious patterns that affect self-esteem, emotional regulation, and relationships, sometimes in ways that feel confusing or difficult to change. By bringing these patterns into awareness, therapy helps create space for insight, choice, and meaningful change.

This work unfolds at a pace that respects your readiness and lived experience. Therapy is not about quick fixes, but about creating meaningful and lasting change from within. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes an important space where patterns can be understood and gently transformed. As trust develops, many people find they are better able to tolerate difficult emotions, feel more grounded in themselves, and engage in relationships with greater authenticity and ease.

SPECIALIZED INTERESTS

Women in the Legal Profession

I’m drawn to working with women lawyers and law students because therapy can offer something their professional life rarely does: permission to not have the answers right away but to feel and be human.

If you feel like you’re constantly “on,” carrying everyone else’s expectations, or pushing through exhaustion, therapy can offer space to breathe—and to understand what’s driving the pressure from within.

Perinatal Woman

I’m drawn to working with women navigating:

  • Pregnancy

  • Surrogacy — Life During and After Birth for Surrogate Mothers and Intended Mothers

  • Postpartum Transitions | Identity Shifts into Motherhood |

    Emotional Overwhelm | Relationship Strain After Baby

Pregnancy, postpartum, and early motherhood can be profoundly disorienting. Therapy offers space to process identity shifts, emotional overwhelm, and the parts of this transition that feel isolating or unspoken. Don’t figure it out alone.

Women Experiencing Infertility

I am committed to supporting women navigating:

  • Infertility

  • Surrogacy — Life Before Surrogate Journey for Intended Mothers

Infertility can quietly take over your emotional world — affecting your sense of self, your intimate relationships, and expectations for the future.

The chronic stress, ambiguity, and repeated experiences of loss often lead to heightened anxiety, depressive symptoms, relational strain, and identity disruption.

Therapy offers a dedicated space to slow down, make meaning of the experience, and tend to the emotional impact of prolonged uncertainty and grief that is so often minimized or carried alone.

REASONS TO BOOK JOANNA

CONTACT JOANNA

  • DEEP, INSIGHT-ORIENTED APPROACH

    You’re drawn to therapy that goes beyond symptom relief—a space with a curious, reflective, and empathetic therapist who helps you uncover the unconscious origins of your thoughts, feelings, and relational patterns, and understand how they continue to shape your present experience.

  • PSYCHODYNAMIC CLINICAL TRAINING

    Therapy can be challenging work, and having a skilled, clinically trained therapist by your side makes all the difference. After transforming my own career from attorney to therapist, I understand firsthand the courage it takes to navigate change, confront old patterns, and rebuild one’s life.

  • WARMTH AND APPROACHABILITY

    Let’s be real, therapy can be scary, but your therapist shouldn’t be.

    I combine curiosity and warmth to create a space where you can be yourself, explore your story, and feel truly heard.