Working With Eileen

Eileen works with individuals and couples who want to understand the patterns shaping their relationships, reactions, and sense of themselves.

Working With Eileen

Eileen works with individuals and couples who want to understand the patterns shaping their relationships, reactions, and sense of themselves.

Working With Eileen

Eileen works with individuals and couples who want to understand the patterns shaping their relationships, reactions, and sense of themselves.

What brings people here

People often come to therapy when something in their life keeps repeating.

Eileen works with adults who are in emotional pain, especially around relationships with partners, family, work, or themselves.

Neurodivergent individuals are welcome.

What brings people here

People often come to therapy when something in their life keeps repeating.

Eileen works with adults who are in emotional pain, especially around relationships with partners, family, work, or themselves.

Neurodivergent individuals are welcome.

What brings people here

People often come to therapy when something in their life keeps repeating.

Eileen works with adults who are in emotional pain, especially around relationships with partners, family, work, or themselves.

Neurodivergent individuals are welcome.

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How Eileen works

Eileen’s approach is psychoanalytic, relational, and collaborative.


She does not begin by giving advice. She listens for meaning. What did this experience come to mean? How is that meaning still operating? What family pattern, loss, fear, or longing may be shaping the present?


The work often involves understanding the systems of meaning people built early in life, and how those systems continue to influence current relationships. With time, people can begin to see what they have been carrying, grieve what was missing, and make room for new ways of relating.

headshot of eileen in a purple sweater

How Eileen works

Eileen’s approach is psychoanalytic, relational, and collaborative.


She does not begin by giving advice. She listens for meaning. What did this experience come to mean? How is that meaning still operating? What family pattern, loss, fear, or longing may be shaping the present?


The work often involves understanding the systems of meaning people built early in life, and how those systems continue to influence current relationships. With time, people can begin to see what they have been carrying, grieve what was missing, and make room for new ways of relating.

headshot of eileen in a purple sweater

How Eileen works

Eileen’s approach is psychoanalytic, relational, and collaborative.


She does not begin by giving advice. She listens for meaning. What did this experience come to mean? How is that meaning still operating? What family pattern, loss, fear, or longing may be shaping the present?


The work often involves understanding the systems of meaning people built early in life, and how those systems continue to influence current relationships. With time, people can begin to see what they have been carrying, grieve what was missing, and make room for new ways of relating.

A long view of change

Eileen brings more than 55 years of clinical and developmental experience to her work.


That matters because these patterns are rarely simple. They often take patience, precision, and trust to understand. The work is not about quick advice or surface solutions. It is about discovering what has been organizing a person’s emotional life, often outside of awareness. Understanding does not erase the past. But it can change how the past lives in the present.

image of eileen in a white sweater

A long view of change

Eileen brings more than 55 years of clinical and developmental experience to her work.


That matters because these patterns are rarely simple. They often take patience, precision, and trust to understand. The work is not about quick advice or surface solutions. It is about discovering what has been organizing a person’s emotional life, often outside of awareness. Understanding does not erase the past. But it can change how the past lives in the present.

image of eileen in a white sweater

A long view of change

Eileen brings more than 55 years of clinical and developmental experience to her work.


That matters because these patterns are rarely simple. They often take patience, precision, and trust to understand. The work is not about quick advice or surface solutions. It is about discovering what has been organizing a person’s emotional life, often outside of awareness. Understanding does not erase the past. But it can change how the past lives in the present.

image of eileen in a white sweater

Practical details

Eileen works with adults, including individuals and couples.


She is based in the Santa Cruz and Aptos, California area, with telehealth available for California residents.


For current availability, fees, and scheduling, please contact Eileen directly.

Practical details

Eileen works with adults, including individuals and couples.


She is based in the Santa Cruz and Aptos, California area, with telehealth available for California residents.


For current availability, fees, and scheduling, please contact Eileen directly.

Practical details

Eileen works with adults, including individuals and couples.


She is based in the Santa Cruz and Aptos, California area, with telehealth available for California residents.


For current availability, fees, and scheduling, please contact Eileen directly.