At Hollywood Psychotherapy, our therapists are deeply committed to the principles of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is a diverse field with many variations of theory and treatment. While this website outlines a specific approach, please note that our individual clinicians may utilize different theoretical frameworks and clinical methods to best serve their clients.

The therapists at Hollywood Psychotherapy are dedicated to moving beyond traditional psychotherapy. We aim for a psychoanalytically centered liberation psychology. What does this mean? While standard therapy focuses on thoughts, feelings, and relationships, we believe psychoanalysis heals by accessing a dimension of meaningfulness that is other than the meanings that are available to reflective consciousness. It explores those aspects of our being-becoming that Freud described as under repression. These psychoanalytic ideas resonate with the spiritual wisdom of Eastern and indigenous traditions and the rigorous frameworks of 20th-century structuralist and post-structuralist philosophy.