psychoanalytic psychotherapy

ABOUT TIFFANY

I am an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (#147369) in private practice in Beverly Hills and Echo Park. I provide adult psychotherapy supervised by Dr. Katherine Smith, PsyD (LMFT #115452) and children and adolescent psychotherapy supervised by Dr. Deanie Eichenstein, PsyD (PSY29612).

I hold a Master’s in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles and a Bachelor’s in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. I’ve completed extensive 2-year training and received a certificate in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Wright Institute Los Angeles (WILA) working with a diverse adult population.

My practice is continuously informed by a curiosity for and understanding of developmental processes with a keen interest in early life development. I am currently continuing my learning in this area in the child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy program at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. 

I enjoy practicing from psychoanalytic and neurodiversity-affirming frameworks rooted in the body as I find it gives individuals an opportunity to come in genuine contact with themselves. The foundation of my approach is the belief that who we are — our sense of self and how we move in the world — is immensely shaped by our individual temperaments along with our developmental imprints for relating and experiencing.

I believe psychotherapy is subversive, an act of resistance, and inherently political in that it is an opportunity to explore what could not be previously felt or thought about in the presence of another.

By drawing on the relationship we co-create between us, psychotherapy is an opportunity for connection and transformation.

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offerings

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy

  • I offer 1:1 individual sessions and for couples of all relationship structures from a LGBTQIA+ and cultural affirming lens.

  • I support families to cultivate better connection and adaptive skills to strengthen the relationship between caregivers and their kids. I integrate play therapy as a way to connect with children to understand what they are expressing, having challenges with, and needing to be attuned to. I listen for themes to emerge in children’s play and through interacting with one another, we create meaning and language together so that they may grow more fully. I integrate parent work through reflective parenting principles to support caregivers to embody themselves more fully and connect with their children with more resilience.

  • A time marked by dynamic changes, growing pressures, relational demands and challenging growth. I work to get to know what makes you uniquely you and collaborate with you and caregivers on how to strengthen your connection with yourself and others with emotional resiliency and understanding. Similarly to my work with children, I integrate parent work through reflective parenting principles to support caregivers to embody themselves more fully and connect with their children with more resilience.

I work with individuals from all walks of life who may have concerns about not having the experience of being felt with and by others, navigating the balance of intimacy and agency in relation to others, and understanding their internal world more richly.

I’m committed to affirming one’s exploration of the values that are unique and ever dynamic to you. I work well with folks who yearn to engage the fullest sense of their humanity. With this in mind, I bring Feminist and existential perspectives to my lens in understanding how one is impacted by the systems we inhabit and how we may expand our sense of agency.

My working style is to cultivate a therapeutic relationship with you that fosters trust and a sense of play so that you may be known and held more fully.

Together, we will work on a once a week basis though I often encourage two or more sessions per week so that we may get to know you and develop our relationship more deeply. Sessions are 50-minutes held either in person at my office in Beverly Hills, Echo Park or via a HIPPA compliant Telehealth platform.

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I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.

- Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates