Andrew Fontana (he/him)

Within the context of our culture, men in particular can struggle with shame, accessing emotions and feeling a sense of belonging. A unifying experience for men is the sense that they must face their struggles alone. Therapy offers we need others; to know ourselves, to feel the range of our emotions, to connect to meaning in our lives and relationships. I work with men struggling to connect with loved ones, their emotions, and purpose.

Our work will revolve around the question - what do you want? Not as a question to be answered simply, but a question to be asked again and again, a question to grow together. Trauma and loss obscure and sever connection to desire. We will get to know the stories that have led to a loss of desire and begin to rebuild connection to what it is you are longing for.

Our work will revolve around the question - what do you want? Not as a question to be answered simply, but a question to be asked again and again, a question to grow together. Trauma and loss obscure and sever connection to desire. We will get to know the stories that have led to a loss of desire and begin to rebuild connection to what it is you are longing for.

Psychodynamic therapy offers that much of what influences our decisions and relationships exists outside of our day to day awareness - the unconscious. Our work is to bring the unconscious into consciousness. As the poet David Whyte says, we must learn to let the mute parts of our body speak. In session we follow emotions, building a shared language to map what happens in your internal world, we spend time with sensations arising in you body, and what may come in your dream life.

Attachment theory looks at our earliest relationships as formative in how we relate to ourselves, others and the world. Understanding the context in which you learned to related helps us understand the patterns of relationship of the present day. Using this theoretical frame, we will return to story, addressing long-held hurts, hurts often held outside of daily awareness. And from this frame, we will gain greater clarity for what it is you are longing for.

Internal Family Systems is a framework for speaking to the range of your complex experiences that exist in your life. In session we will use parts language to begin to get to know 'the family' that exists in your internal world. In my experience, letting the different parts of your experience speak leads to greater acceptance of past events and present circumstance, increased sense of efficacy in work and relationships, and greater joy in one's experience of one's own life.