SEXUAL SENSE OF SELF PROTOCOL
An 8-Week Intensive for All Sexual Dysfunctions (Specializing in Psychogenic Erectile Dysfunction)
An 8-session intensive designed for psychogenic sexual difficulties, including erectile dysfunction, orgasmic challenges, desire concerns, performance anxiety, and pain during sex.
This protocol addresses why sexual difficulties occur-not just how to manage symptoms. Most sexual dysfunctions share a common root: disconnection from the body during intimacy.
The work integrates clinical hypnotherapy, Focusing (body-based awareness), and psychoanalytic exploration to reach and rewire patterns in the survival brain where talk therapy cannot. Each session builds five core capacities: embodied awareness, autonomous need recognition, intimate recognition, boundary regulation, and transformative connection.
Sessions include customized hypnosis recordings for home practice. Session seven may include your partner for communication and education.
Structured, time-bound, and results-oriented over 8–12 weeks.
Fee: $2,900 for the complete 8-week program
SENSE OF SELF: RECONNECTING WITH DESIRE
An 8-Week Intensive for Knowing What You Want
This 8-week program helps you restore a fundamental capacity: knowing what you want and knowing how to get it. Many people live by “shoulds” instead of authentic desire-successful on the surface yet unfulfilled within.
Your relationship with desire originates in your earliest experiences of need and satisfaction. When that rhythm was disrupted, it affected every domain of adult wanting. Through clinical hypnotherapy, Focusing, and psychoanalytic exploration, this program helps you reconnect with the bodily sense of authentic desire.
Over eight sessions, you’ll learn to distinguish genuine wants from learned expectations, express needs clearly, and apply this awareness to relationships, career, and creativity. Each session includes a customized hypnosis recording and integration exercises.
Fee: $2,900 for the complete 8-week program
INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS
Depth Work for Lasting Transformation
For patients seeking longer-term, open-ended depth work beyond structured programs, I work psychoanalytically, integrating psychoanalytic methods and techniques, clinical sexology, somatic awareness, and hypnosis into reflective, depth-oriented treatment.
This process attends to the levels where patterns are actually encoded-in the body, in early relational experience, in the emotional meanings that have formed around vulnerability, closeness, desire, and self-expression. Rather than addressing only surface concerns, we explore how developmental and relational histories continue to shape intimacy, presence, and the capacity to remain emotionally and bodily connected with oneself and with others.
A central focus of the work involves developing what psychoanalyst Hyman Spotnitz described as psychological maturity: knowing what you want and knowing how to get it. Together, we examine how early experiences shaped your relationship to desire, boundaries, vulnerability, and power-and how these internal dynamics continue to influence your emotional, relational, and sexual life in the present.
This work is particularly suited for patients navigating significant life transitions, complex relational or developmental histories, or ongoing questions of self, meaning, and aliveness. Sessions typically occur weekly or bi-weekly and unfold over time without a predetermined endpoint, allowing space for careful, attuned, depth-oriented exploration that moves at the pace that feels right for you.
Fee: $400 per session
Sliding scale available for a limited number of spaces.
CLINICAL SEXOLOGY
Restoring Connection and Authentic Desire
As a psychoanalytic clinical sexologist, I help patients understand and heal the psychological roots of sexual concerns. Sexual difficulties—whether related to desire, arousal, performance, or intimacy—often reflect deeper patterns of disconnection from the body and from one’s own wanting.
Through an integrative approach combining psychoanalytic exploration, clinical hypnotherapy, and somatic awareness, patients learn to reconnect with their bodily sense of pleasure, safety, and choice. This work addresses not only sexual function but also the underlying dynamics of power, vulnerability, and self-expression that shape intimacy.
Sessions are offered individually and may complement medical or relational treatment when appropriate.
Fee: $400 per session
Sliding scale available for a limited number of spaces.