It takes bravery and resolve to seek psychotherapy services as a step toward healing and growth. Paul Sireci has been a practicing psychotherapist in New York City since 2010, specializing in work with adults, adolescents, and couples.
Each of us occupies a unique position at the intersection of race, social class, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and lived experience. Paul's work incorporates an anti-oppression lens in order to best understand how the world has supported and constrained you while also looking deeply at how you relate to the world.
Psychotherapy services, whether for couples or individuals, typically occur on a once weekly basis. Psychoanalysis takes place in sessions more than once per week.
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy are primarily about one question: how does the patient contribute to their own suffering? This question is useful because even when we suffer at the whims of other people or larger systems, our own participation is what we can control. Other topics can and will be discussed, but they are all subordinate to answering this one question. That's why the only mistake a patient can make in analysis and derived therapies is being un-curious about their own participation in their life and their own troubles. If you come with a commitment to curiosity, you're coming with all you need.