A thoughtful, exploratory approach to understanding your emotional life.

Psychotherapy for people who feel overwhelmed, uncertain, or stuck — and are looking for a way to make sense of their experience rather than simply manage it.

People often seek therapy when they feel:

  • Overwhelmed by thoughts or emotions they can’t quite organize

  • Caught in patterns that no longer feel useful or make sense

  • Anxious, depressed, or burned out while still functioning outwardly

  • Uncertain about their relationships, decisions, or direction in life

  • Worried that the way they feel is somehow “wrong”

Often, what feels most distressing is not only the symptoms themselves, but the sense of being alone with experiences that are difficult to name or understand.

How the Work Helps

Therapy can help people articulate what they are most immediately struggling with — emotionally, experientially, and in their relationships — so that those experiences feel more manageable.

When helpful, I integrate practical, goal-oriented strategies to support symptom relief, while also attending to underlying emotional patterns so that change is meaningful and lasting.

What Becomes Possible

People often notice changes such as:

  • Greater confidence in their own judgment

  • A fuller, more usable range of emotional experience

  • Increased clarity in relationships and decision-making

  • A stronger sense of internal regulation and steadiness

Life’s challenges don’t disappear. But when emotional experience becomes more understandable and less overwhelming, people often find it easier to stay grounded, flexible, and engaged in their lives.

John Menaker