Understanding yourself in a way you didn't know was possible.
That's what psychodynamic therapy did for me personally. And it's what I want to offer the women I work with. Not just coping with what's hard — but actually understanding it. Where it came from. What it's been doing. And what becomes possible when you finally see it clearly.
Book a free 15-min call →We look at your life. We look for patterns.
That's how I describe it on consult calls, because that's really what it is. We look at what you're experiencing now — and we look at your past to understand where it came from. Specifically, your early relationships with caregivers and attachment figures. Because those relationships taught you things. About yourself. About other people. About what's possible in a relationship. And you've been operating from that map ever since.
Not because you're stuck. But because that's how we're wired. We internalize the relationships that shaped us, and they become the template — the model — for how we move through the world. Psychodynamic therapy is about making that template visible, so you actually get to choose what you do with it.
It's just what's out of reach — for now.
The conscious mind is what you're already aware of — your daily life, your thoughts, what you can name. The unconscious is everything just outside of that awareness. Sometimes it's things we'd rather not feel. Sometimes it's things we've never had words for. Sometimes it's something we've been circling around for years without quite landing on it.
In a session, I might point to something underlying in what you're saying. Or I'll notice a contrast — between what you're saying and what your body is doing, between what you're describing and what I'm picking up in the room. I'm tracking the moments where something wants to come through but hasn't made it to the surface yet. That's where we slow down.
What's underneath what you're saying. The thing you keep almost landing on and then moving past.
Contrasts between what you're saying and what your body is doing. That gap is usually information.
Rationalizing, intellectualizing, going abstract when things get close — I'll name it gently. "I wonder what we're moving around here."
The same theme showing up in different relationships, different jobs, different decades. That repetition is the map.
Psychodynamic therapy is still alive — and it's been growing.
I know people hear "psychodynamic" and picture Freud, a leather couch, someone asking about your mother. And look — Freud had revolutionary ideas. But those ideas were built on, refined, challenged, and expanded by generations of clinicians after him. The field didn't stop when he died. It kept going.
The psychodynamic therapy I practice is informed by systems, culture, and identity. I'm seeing the whole person — including the world they're moving through. A Black woman's experience of relationships, selfhood, and worth cannot be understood without also understanding race, gender, power, and what it costs to navigate all of that. My work holds all of it at once.
"A Black queer woman doing this work — sitting with these ideas, offering this kind of healing — that in itself says something about who this work belongs to. It's not limiting. It never was."
I bring a systemic and intersectional lens to psychodynamic work. That means we're looking at your internal world and the external forces shaping it — race, gender, family systems, culture. You don't have to leave any part of your experience at the door.
It's not a moment. It's a slow becoming.
Psychodynamic work is often about personality — about how we show up consistently across time, across relationships, across every part of our lives. And what I notice in women who do this work is that they become more curious about themselves. More reflective. More willing to follow a thread and see where it goes.
They also start to internalize a different voice. The compassionate, honest way I speak to them in session — slowly, they start to speak to themselves that way too. They integrate what we've built together. And over time, they develop a stronger sense of agency. Of self-worth that doesn't depend so much on what's happening outside of them. They become more able to support themselves — and more able to let others in.
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