Online Therapy in Colorado & Florida
Online psychotherapy for adults seeking to resolve repeating patterns, deepen self-understanding, and align with their core values.
Grounded Psychotherapy
Therapy draws from psychodynamic and psychoanalytic frameworks alongside practical Cognitive Behavioral tools. This approach helps you strengthen personal autonomy and find lasting relief from anxiety, depression, and relationship fatigue.
Format: Secure, HIPAA-compliant telehealth sessions
Licensure: Serving clients in Colorado and Florida
Focus: Recurring patterns, life transitions, and identity
Experience: Over 30 years of clinical experience, including inpatient care
How Insight Therapy Creates Lasting Change
Interrupting Repeating Loops
Many clients seek therapy because a familiar pattern keeps resurfacing—the same dynamic in relationships, predictable emotional triggers, or a persistent feeling of being unable to pivot even when the reaction is recognized in real time.
Identity, Meaning & Stage-of-Life Shifts
Others arrive because life feels misaligned: navigating retirement or career pivots, experiencing a quiet disconnect from oneself, or working through major life transitions where old identities no longer fit.
Core Principles
Uncovering the Unconscious
Uncovering disowned thoughts, unexpressed needs, and unconscious defenses. Bringing these elements to light defuses chronic guilt, anxiety, and internal friction.
Identity Beyond the Roles We Play
Examining the rigid roles we adopt—the caretaker, achiever, or peacekeeper. Therapy helps you reclaim parts of yourself that were sidelined to meet external expectations.
Resolving Internal Conflict
Addressing the competing desires and values pulling you in opposite directions to foster clear decision-making.
What Sessions Look Like in Practice
Sessions are collaborative, grounded, and conversational. We look at current challenges, emotional responses, relational patterns, and formative family dynamics without rigid formulas.
The goal is not to dwell endlessly on the past, but to understand how historical blueprints and expectations shape your present choices—allowing you to respond rather than react.
A Pragmatic Balance
Insight without action is incomplete. We pair deep exploration with practical Cognitive Behavioral strategies so your self-awareness translates into tangible, daily momentum.
Is This Approach Right for You?
This modality is tailored for adults who want to move beyond surface symptom management to understand the underlying causes of their emotional patterns.
What This Work Emphasizes
Reflective, insightful dialogue where you set the pace. We examine root causes, personal boundaries, and internal motivations to build lasting autonomy and psychological resilience.
What This Work Is Not
This is not crisis/emergency psychiatric care, nor is it in-person. It is 100% virtual telehealth for adults physically located in Colorado or Florida. It is not an esoteric lecture; it remains focused on your real-world life.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions regarding psychotherapy and telehealth.
Is psychodynamic therapy only about the past or dreams?
No. While early experiences and dreams may be explored if they are meaningful to you, sessions primarily focus on your real-world relationships, emotional reactions, core values, and life circumstances.
How does this approach differ from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
CBT primarily targets conscious thought patterns and behavioral restructuring to alleviate immediate symptoms. Insight-oriented therapy goes a layer deeper to examine why those beliefs formed and what emotional conflicts drive them. We frequently integrate both for balanced progress. You can read more about this in our article on how CBT helps anxiety and depression.
How does therapy work with the unconscious?
We look at parts of your experience, emotional needs, or limits that have been pushed out of awareness or judged, and the defenses that keep them there. To learn more, explore my article on rumination from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Is this the same as classical psychoanalysis?
No. I provide insight-oriented psychotherapy rather than formal multi-day-per-week psychoanalysis. It is a flexible, modern clinical approach tailored to your daily life.
Where is telehealth therapy available?
Online individual therapy is available for adults physically located anywhere in Colorado (Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs) or Florida (St. Augustine, Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, Miami) at the time of the session.
Start with a Free Consultation
Take the first step toward greater self-awareness and clearer direction. Schedule a no-pressure, 15-minute consultation to discuss your goals and see if this approach is a good fit.