The work
The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run through intake checklists or assign exercises between sessions. I pay attention to what happens in the room: what you're saying, what you're not saying, the moments when something shifts or goes flat or speeds up. That's the material we work with.
Most people arrive already knowing the story of their situation. They've told it to themselves a hundred times and always land in the same place. What's missing is a different angle, someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. That's what I offer. Not interpretation from a distance, but attention in the room, offered as it happens.
I work with individuals and couples. Individual work is usually about finding the pattern underneath the presenting problem, the thing that keeps recurring in different forms across different circumstances. Couples work is about finding what the argument is really about, which is rarely what it appears to be about. Both come down to the same thing: seeing what you haven't been able to see, and from there, actually being able to do something different.
The professional-services bind
Consulting and law run on utilization and up-or-out: the hours are the product, tirelessness is the performance, and advancement goes to whoever can defer their own life the longest. The reward for being good at it is more of it. Add constant travel, client-service self-erasure, and a culture where admitting strain reads as weakness, and you get high earners who are extremely competent and quietly depleted, always one engagement or one case away from finally dealing with themselves.
This is a way to do that work without a record and without a fixed slot you will inevitably miss: completely private, fitted around the travel.
What consultants and lawyers bring
The shapes recur across the firm and the practice. The consultant who lives in airports and hotel gyms and has not been home for a full week in months. The associate billing past twenty-four hundred hours and calling it a phase for the fifth year running. The partner who made it and found the prize was more of the climb. The marriage conducted by text from a client site or a war room. The drinking that lubricates the travel. And the deferred life, the one that starts after this deal, this case, this promotion, that somehow never arrives because there is always another.
The arrangement
I am a US-trained psychodynamic therapist working online and privately, across every time zone and around a travel schedule rather than against it. No insurance billing, no diagnosis, no clinical record, nothing the firm could reach. You pay directly, in any currency. We start with a free 15-minute call.
Questions consultants and lawyers ask
What people bring to online therapy
The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.
How it works
Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a free 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.
Selected research on this approach
My work is psychodynamic and depth-oriented. These are some of the studies on the effectiveness of that kind of therapy. They describe research on the method in general, and are not claims about any individual outcome.
- Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 65(2), 98-109. doi:10.1037/a0018378
- Steinert, C., Munder, T., Rabung, S., Hoyer, J., & Leichsenring, F. (2017). Psychodynamic therapy: as efficacious as other empirically supported treatments? A meta-analysis testing equivalence of outcomes. American Journal of Psychiatry, 174(10), 943-953. PMID 28541091
- Leichsenring, F., Abbass, A., Heim, N., Keefe, J. R., Kisely, S., Luyten, P., Rabung, S., & Steinert, C. (2023). The status of psychodynamic psychotherapy as an empirically supported treatment for common mental disorders: an umbrella review based on updated criteria. World Psychiatry, 22(2), 286-304. PMC10168167