Mentorship, Study Groups, Community and Continuing Education for Psychotherapists

HELLO, I’M LARA

I came to this work of psychotherapy to help those who were left out, left behind and lost in our “civilization”. 

I have twenty-four years of experience in the mental health field and hundreds of hours of psychoanalytic training, supervision and training analysis. I am here to support you in deepening your practice through talking and relationship. I will help you learn how to get from first contact to a long term treatment relationship. I will help you build your practice. I will help you feel at ease in your work and understand what you’re up to and why.

The original and continuing foundational goal of this project is to create local community around psychoanalytic thought. As this project evolves, the added goal of demystifying psychoanalytic thought and practice and making training accessible to all who are interested is becoming increasingly important to the mission of this project. In that vein, I also hope to begin to provide asynchronous (at home) CE opportunities for folks across the nation. I envision a world where a parent of a nursing baby can gain a psychoanalytic perspective while also being a “good enough” parent. Something I, myself, have craved deeply as I juggle being a parent to twins, a full time psychotherapist in private practice and a curious student.

As a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor in NC I am able to provide you with individual or group supervision hours. Because Asheville Analytic Thought is a certified training organization through NBCC I am able to provide you with CE hours.

My Offerings Are For:

• Those who are psychoanalytically curious allies to and members of historically marginalized groups. 

• Clinicians who hope to learn enough theory to support them in being good clinicians. 

• Those who crave a soft place to land where there is no pressure to keep striving to be “good enough” when you likely already are. 

• Working parents wanting to deepen their practice while still being good enough parents and clinicians. 

• Students who don’t understand the lay of the psychoanalytic land but want to without feeling small. 

• Those who are clinicians first, philosophers second.

  
  
  

  Specifically I Offer:

• One on one or group mentorship for psychotherapists who wish to deepen their practice and learn to use their relationships as healing tools.

• Continuing Education offerings in person or asynchronously that source psychoanalytic theory to improve your clinical practice.

• Group spaces for ungoverned psychoanalytic conversations and even debates.

My Offerings Are Not:

• For those who want to learn to be unalloyed Psychoanalysts.

• For those who want to be philosophers, writers and teachers first, clinicians second, third or fourth.

• For those deeply interested in psychoanalytic interpretation, dream interpretation or using psychoanalytic tools such as high frequency, interpretation and laying on the couch to urge the psyche to give up the unconscious goods. In my world the relationship and time resolve the resistances.

• This offering is not meant to provide a Psychoanalytic training hub in Asheville even though currently it is the only CE provider in Asheville for Psychoanalytic Thought.

Psychotherapy Mentorship— Not Psychoanalytic Training:

While I use psychoanalytic theory for all mentorship and study group opportunities, it is my twenty-four years of clinical experience that I am most proud to bring to the table. 

You see, when I take a position with a client, I do not think first of psychoanalytic theory.  I FEEL first into the right response.  That “feeling into” came from my experience—not from reading books.  It came from thirteen years of failing and succeeding with the most resistant clients one will ever encounter.  It came from failing and succeeding for eleven years in private practice. 

I am a good and confident clinician, and my offerings are for those who want to be good clinicians able to trust themselves in the room. 
 

I hope you join me in exploring the world of alloyed psychoanalytic thought!