Dr. Ann Baranowski

“I offer psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Both acknowledge the existence of an unconscious mind that influences how we behave, think, and feel. My approach is similar whether I am practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. Together we pay attention to what matters to you. Therapy is a conversation, but it is a very unique kind of conversation. Much of this conversation involves deep listening on my part. I also help you stay with your experience in order that the possible meanings of such things as painful emotional and relational patterns, dreams, physical symptoms, and fantasies can emerge.

My desire is to encourage aspects of yourself that you have had to deny, hide, abandon, or leave unexpressed, perhaps to please others or avoid conflict. As these aspects of yourself come forward in our work, they have the chance to be known together and incorporated into your life.

I am trained at a contemporary psychoanalytic institute that acknowledges its roots in classical psychoanalysis, but incorporates changes and modifications to this approach to make psychoanalysis more relevant today.”