Samuel Khanukayev (he/him)

LMFT
Accepting Clients

I strive to facilitate a reflective and explorative environment where the unbearable can be held and truth can be spoken.

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in San Francisco, CA

About My Clients

If you find yourself experiencing recurrent symptoms and challenges, or relationships patterns that are causing you suffering, it can be liberating to address the underlying causes.

My Background and Approach

Throughout my work with diverse clients, I observed that the unconscious repetitions of aversion, clinging, and reenactments of familiar/familial ways of being bind us in suffering. Utilizing a psychoanalytic approach to therapy, I can help you develop a deeper emotional self-knowledge, work through underlying psychological pain, and embrace growth and transformation. Multicultural and bilingual elements of my identity, and a history of enduring ethnic discrimination and immigration, significantly inform how I listen to my clients, think through trauma and fragmentation with them.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I believe that each subject is multidimensional and symbolically overdetermined, always already in the world of culture and language. Childhood experiences and the relationships with primary caregivers structure how we relate to ourselves and others. Through therapeutic work, rigid frames of being can be deconstructed and psychological space can be reclaimed for creativity, desire and becoming.

I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Atheism
  • Buddhism
  • Hinduism
  • Judaism

At A Glance

  • Experience: 14 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $150 - 250/session

Info

Email Samuel
414 Gough St
Suite 5
San Francisco, CA 94102

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