I work with patients anywhere from one to three times per week. I believe that the more often we are able to meet, the deeper and richer the work is able to become. But no matter how often we meet, the courage to step into the internal world of oneself, with another, is a profound leap toward integration and wholeness.

I came across a quote by Lewis Aron and Karen Starr in their book, A Psychotherapy for the People. I resonate deeply with the way they articulate the work of therapy and psychoanalysis.

“Patients want and need therapists who will listen to them in depth. That is what psychoanalysts do. We listen to people in depth, over an extended period of time, with great intensity. We listen to what they say and don’t say, to what they say in words and through their bodies and enactments. We listen to them by listening to ourselves, to our minds, our reveries, and our own bodily reactions. We listen to their life stories and to the story they live with us in the room. We attend to their past, present, and future. We listen to what they already know or can see about themselves, and for what they don’t yet know or can’t see in themselves.”