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 practice a form of psychoanalytic and neurodiversity-affirming therapy rooted in the body, meaning I am most interested in helping you experience life, and death for that matter, with more clarity and embodiment. I listen for and respond to how and what you express – and equally what you don’t express – with presence and respect. Sometimes this shows itself through the way it feels when we’re together in a room or on a screen, when we talk or think about whatever comes to your mind, your dreams, your anguish. My hope is that by being together, once or more times a week, we find ways for you to feel more, generate more possibilities and vitality, and enjoy yourself and life with more freedom. 

I’ve completed training and received certificates in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Wright Institute Los Angeles (WILA) and child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the New Center for Psychoanalysis working with adults, children and adolescents who have all taught me a great deal. The people I work with share music, films, cultural phenomenons, stories and memories they haven’t thought about or talked about in years, if ever, with me. I think it’s just the coolest thing. 

I find 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. 

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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