Dr. Palōmi ShethPsychological Associate, MD, MA, PhDc (she, her)

About

Psychoanalytic therapy is often misrepresented in media, yet remains one of few treatments that meets the most hidden parts of self. Symptoms aren’t only sources of suffering, rather, communications of longing, conflict, grief & survival. They arise from a dormant personal history that is awakened by the professional receptive other—one who stays close without collapsing into advice, fixing, or haste. The weight of depression is displaced desire for expression & creativity. The alternative to anxiety is unactualized dreams. We move together effectively, truthfully, so trapped symptoms metabolize into meaning, agency and aliveness.