The one rule of analysis is free association: saying anything and everything that comes to mind.

With the aid of your dreams, we will enter into the heart of what is not working in your life, exploring, among other things, what it is you want, and what is out of control--not in order to "cure" or get rid of it, but to free what's acting in it.

Lacanian analysis is non-relational in that it seeks to create space for the expression of the subject of the unconscious. Analysis aims to give space to, witness, and accompany that in you which hasn't been able to make a place for itself in the world, and which expresses itself instead in the form of symptoms, suffering, and damage to relationships. To support and make space for the subject of the unconscious, we work with your speech. As we listen for repetitions, contradiction, ruptures of emotion, slips, acts, and symptoms, giving such objects time and space rather than aiming to suppress them, you will inevitably construct some formulas touching upon the logics at the heart of what you hear from yourself--not so much to "know," "understand," or "figure it out"--although these too arrive in moments, also as objects given time and space--but as an experience of creating your own life. In an analysis, we can witness the solutions you invent and the changes you make in accompaniment with your experience of speaking, listening, and playing. 

I have an academic background in literature, critical theory, and gender and sexuality studies. My experience teaching courses in French and world literature and queer, feminist, and transgender theory also informs the ways in which I listen and support what is creative--and what is writing and written--in the analysands with whom I work.