Marina Tonkonogy

In depth therapy, we dive deep into understanding your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It's like exploring the roots of a tree to understand how it grows and flourishes. By uncovering these deeper layers, we can address underlying issues and make lasting changes for a healthier, happier life.

Existential therapy honors our freedom to choose and the responsibility that comes with it. Rooted in existential philosophy, this approach invites honest reflection on what it means to live authentically—facing uncertainty, limitation, and meaning with courage. Together, we explore how personal choice shapes one’s life path, even in the midst of suffering or constraint.

In depth therapy, we dive deep into understanding your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It's like exploring the roots of a tree to understand how it grows and flourishes. By uncovering these deeper layers, we can address underlying issues and make lasting changes for a healthier, happier life.

Do you experience a loneliness that's hard to name? It's not the kind that disappears with company, but a quiet sense of moving through life unseen, as if no one truly recognizes you. We will explore not just the symptoms of this loneliness but its deeper meaning in your life story. When understood deeply through both compassionate acceptance and honest inquiry, loneliness can become a doorway into authenticity—a gateway to your true self, one that doesn’t need to be edited to belong.

Self-esteem is rooted in self-acceptance, the ability to embrace and value oneself as a whole, with strengths and imperfections alike. It's about acknowledging your worthiness without conditions or judgments. Through therapy, we focus on fostering deep self-acceptance, understanding your inner narrative, and cultivating a compassionate relationship with yourself. This forms the foundation for a naturally positive self-image and empowers you to live authentically and confidently.

My experience as a first-generation immigrant shaped not only how I listen, but how I understand the subtle ways people feel unseen. Not because they’ve failed to connect, but because their inner life doesn’t easily fit the expectations around them. This sensitivity to cultural and personal misalignment between self and world, authenticity and belonging, is at the heart of my work.

I draw from both Freudian and Jungian traditions, blending classical psychoanalytic ideas with an openness to the symbolic and the spiritual. This approach supports deep exploration of unconscious patterns, inner conflict, and meaning—helping clients uncover the roots of emotional struggle and connect with a more integrated sense of self.

Depth therapy invites a slower, more reflective process rooted in the belief that symptoms carry meaning. Influenced by philosophical and mystical traditions, I help clients listen for what is hidden beneath the surface—dreams, longings, and inner truths—trusting that healing often unfolds through insight, imagination, and a deeper connection to one's inner life.