Depth Psychotherapy · Dreamwork · Symbolic Inquiry · The Imaginal
Depth Psychotherapy & Dreamwork
In-person in Coconut Grove · Telehealth throughout Florida
Something Beneath the Surface Is at Work
You may already know yourself quite well. You have reflected on your patterns, traced them to their origins, perhaps spent years in therapy or in honest self-inquiry. And still, something returns. The same relational pull. The same inner critic. The same feeling of being somehow beside yourself, even in moments that should feel settled.
This is not a failure of insight. It is an indication that the work is asking to go deeper.
Depth psychotherapy proceeds from the understanding that the psyche is larger than what we can see from the surface. Much of what shapes our experience; our emotional responses, our relational patterns, the images that arrive unbidden in dreams or in the spaces between waking thoughts, originates in layers of the self that conscious understanding alone cannot fully reach. The unconscious speaks in a different register than analysis: through image, symbol, feeling tone, and the strange logic of the liminal.
This is the territory depth work attends to. Not only what you think and know about yourself, but what moves in you; the figures that appear in dreams, the images that return, the moments that carry a weight that exceeds their apparent content. There is intelligence in this material. And it is asking to be met.
“Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The Psyche Speaks in More Than Words
Many people who find their way to depth work arrive having already done significant inner inquiry. They are not strangers to reflection. They can name their patterns, understand their history, articulate what shaped them. And yet something persists not because insight has failed, but because the psyche operates on more than one level at once.
The unconscious is not simply a repository of forgotten memories or unprocessed experience. It is an active, generative dimension of the self; one that thinks in images rather than arguments, that communicates through symbol, metaphor, dream, and felt sense. It has its own logic, its own timing, and at times its own agenda. When we learn to listen to it rather than interpret it away, something shifts.
Dreams are one of the most direct expressions of this inner life. They arrive unbidden, bypassing the filters of the conscious mind, carrying imagery that can illuminate what waking thought has not been able to reach. But the imaginal realm extends beyond sleep, it surfaces in the images that return uninvited, the moments of unexpected emotion, the experiences that feel significant in ways that exceed their apparent content. Sometimes it emerges through encounters with art, with nature, with states of consciousness that ordinary frameworks cannot fully hold.
Depth psychotherapy creates a space in which this material can be received, not decoded or explained away, but genuinely met. The question is not only what does this mean, but what is this asking of me.
My Approach to Depth-Oriented Work
I practice depth-oriented, psychodynamically informed psychotherapy that takes seriously the full range of the psyche; including what lives beneath conscious awareness. My work draws on psychoanalytic thinking, relational psychotherapy, and somatic awareness, attending to the patterns, images, and dynamics that shape inner life at a level that insight alone does not always reach.
I have completed BodyDreaming Training, a three-year post-graduate program integrating Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, attachment theory, Jungian, and Feminist orientations, developed by Jungian Analyst Marian Dunlea. I am currently pursuing advanced psychoanalytic training at the Florida Psychoanalytic Institute. These two bodies of training inform how I hold the imaginal — with both clinical rigor and genuine openness to what the psyche is trying to communicate.
I work with dreams, symbolic imagery, and the felt sense of meaning that arises in the space between conscious and unconscious life. I also have experience accompanying people through the integration of significant and non-ordinary inner experiences, states that have felt profound or destabilizing, and that are looking for a relational, depth-oriented container in which to find meaning and ground.
Psychodynamic Inquiry
We attend to the unconscious patterns, relational histories, and inherited dynamics that continue to shape your present — including those that have never found language.
Dreamwork & the Imaginal
Dreams and imaginal experience are treated as meaningful communications from the deeper self — not decoded, but explored with curiosity, patience, and respect for their own logic.
Symbolic & Felt Sense
We work at the intersection of image, meaning, and embodied experience — attending to what the psyche expresses through symbol, metaphor, and the moments that carry more weight than their surface warrants.
Integration
For those navigating significant or non-ordinary inner experiences, we work toward genuine integration — finding language, meaning, and ground for what has been encountered.
What This Work Might Include
Every person’s process is shaped by their own history, their psyche’s particular language, and what they are ready to meet. That said, depth-oriented work tends to move through several interconnected layers.
Working with dreams
Dreams are not puzzles to be solved. They are communications, arriving in their own language, on their own terms, from a part of the self that does not speak in argument or analysis. In our work together, dreams are welcomed as they come: strange, fragmentary, luminous, disturbing. We sit with them rather than decode them, allowing their imagery to open rather than close.
Attending to the imaginal
The imaginal realm extends beyond sleep. It surfaces in the images that return unbidden, the figures that populate fantasy and reverie, the moments of unexpected resonance with a piece of music, a line of poetry, a dream remembered years later. We bring the same quality of attention to these experiences, not explaining them away, but asking what they are carrying.
Exploring unconscious patterns
Alongside imaginal work, we attend to the relational and psychological patterns that formed early and continue to organize experience in the present. What did you come to believe about yourself, about others, about what is possible? These structures are often invisible precisely because they are so familiar and they are among the most important things depth work can illuminate.
Integrating non-ordinary experience
Some people arrive carrying experiences that have exceeded ordinary frameworks of meaning; states of expanded awareness, encounters with imagery or presence that felt significant beyond what rational language can hold, or the aftermath of experiences, including psychedelic ones, that opened something and left it unresolved. Depth psychotherapy offers a relational, symbolically informed space in which this material can be received, explored, and gradually integrated into a larger understanding of the self.
Symbolic inquiry
We pay attention to what repeats; in dreams, in relationships, in the themes that surface across a life. Symbols are not decorative. They are the psyche’s way of pointing toward what matters most, often before the conscious mind has caught up.
The long work
Depth psychotherapy is not a brief intervention. It is a sustained process of becoming more fully acquainted with yourself; with what you carry, what you have inherited, what you are capable of, and what is asking to emerge. The goal is not symptom relief alone, though that often comes. It is a deeper coherence — a life that feels more genuinely, more wholly, yours.
Who Tends to Seek This Work
The people drawn to depth psychotherapy and dreamwork are often already reflective; they have done reading, journaling, perhaps previous therapy. They come not because they are in crisis, but because something quieter and more persistent is asking for attention. They sense that the answers they are looking for will not be found on the surface.
This work does not require prior familiarity with Jungian psychology, psychoanalysis, or any particular framework. It requires only a genuine curiosity about your inner life and a willingness to move slowly enough to hear what it is saying.
This work may be particularly relevant if you are:
- Drawn to understanding not just what you do, but why — at the deepest level
- Navigating a sense that something essential is missing, despite external circumstances that appear intact
- Experiencing recurring dreams, vivid imagery, or symbolic experiences that feel significant and unresolved
- Carrying the aftermath of a non-ordinary or expanded state of consciousness — including a psychedelic experience — that opened something and left it without a container
- Working through questions of meaning, identity, or purpose that feel too large for ordinary conversation
- Interested in the relationship between your personal history and the deeper patterns that organize your inner life
- Seeking a long-term, relationally grounded therapeutic process rather than a structured protocol or short-term intervention
- A thoughtful, psychologically minded adult who is ready to take the unconscious seriously
Available in Miami and Throughout Florida
I offer in-person psychotherapy at my office in Coconut Grove, Miami. I also work with clients throughout Florida via secure telehealth —
the same relational depth and unhurried presence, in a virtual format.
Sessions are 50 minutes. Longer sessions are available when clinically appropriate.