Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Creative Consultation

Whether working with an artist, filmmaker, writer, patient, or institution, my practice begins from the same premise: that meaning must be encountered; that meaning is mysterious. When I practice psychoanalytic work in the room, I am working from the same place from which I create. This is the space of the unconscious. A space where the story can emerge.

Psychoanalysis has transformed how I make films, conduct research, teach, and collaborate. Likewise, artistic practice has radically expanded how I listen clinically. Rather than treating these as separate professions, I understand them as different expressions of the same inquiry into narrative, subjectivity, memory, the unconscious, and the mysterious.

Please inquire about working with Andrea in any form of one-on-one, group, creative, or project services.

The contexts in which this methodology is practiced

  • For individuals seeking longer-term psychodynamic or psychoanalytic psychotherapy
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  • For some, speech alone does not always provide sufficient access to experience. Within psychoanalytic psychotherapy, I integrate psychodramatic and creative methods that allow unconscious material to take form through scene, movement, narrative, role, and image.

    Patients may bring narrative, poetic, or creative work into the analytic space, or we may develop it together in session. This can include psychodramatic exploration, elements of drama therapy, script writing, free-associative writing, poetry, and other forms of creative and nonsense inquiry. These are not separate from the psychoanalytic process, particularly when an experience is difficult to access or articulate through speech alone.

    My background as an artist, filmmaker, and educator informs this work. Creative methods remain grounded within psychoanalytic psychotherapy, where what emerges can be further associated, explored, and understood in relation to the patient's inner and relational life.

  • Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

    For filmmakers, artists, writers, curators, researchers, and organizations developing projects where process matters as much as outcome. I work with individuals and groups to think through works in progress, conceptual and narrative questions, research processes, ethics, collaboration, creative impasses, and the unconscious structures and inner worlds that shape a work and its making.

    How do you give form to psychic reality?

    Consultation may take the form of one-on-one creative inquiry, psychoanalytic dramaturgy, project development, research and facilitation, group inquiry, or collaboration with creative and institutional partners.