https://www.drkristinfiorella.com/background daily 0.75 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134608f8fadf32ab0875651/1631298977536-QOYBNYZ55OCJCRSQL8I6/Kristen+Fiorella Background - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.drkristinfiorella.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-02-26 https://www.drkristinfiorella.com/home daily 1.0 2023-09-11 https://www.drkristinfiorella.com/approach daily 0.75 2021-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134608f8fadf32ab0875651/1631030106136-EIL7R1XJHDN69WI94DNA/image-asset.jpeg Approach - Approach Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy are unique opportunities to develop internal freedom through understanding and unwinding stuck patterns of thinking, feeling and relating. Each person comes to psychotherapy or psychoanalysis for unique reasons. Often people enter treatment because they feel they have gone as far as they can on their own. They need the help of an intimate and supportive therapeutic relationship to make sense of and digest their emotional experience. Together we will work to understand the roots of your internal struggles and how they are manifesting in current situations and relationships. We will work through these together in the context of our relationship. We will address and ultimately change unsatisfying repetitive patterns so that you can be in more genuine contact with yourself and others and live with an enhanced sense of vitality and self esteem. Often patients feel over time that they are able to think and feel more freely and fully. They also become more open to what is unknown inside themselves as unconscious dimensions of their minds are discovered. https://www.drkristinfiorella.com/children-adolescence daily 0.75 2023-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134608f8fadf32ab0875651/1631030139882-K8LD4HVG46EJD179ILHH/image-asset.jpeg Children & Adolescence - Children & Adolescence As with adults, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for children and adolescents provide a safe and private space to explore fears, confusion, hopes, questions around gender, interpersonal struggles, trauma or loss. In psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for children, a child and I often find ways to communicate about more hidden struggles through their play. Children are sometimes able to speak about things in that medium before they are ready to talk more directly. Therapeutic play can provide a powerful way to address a child’s internal world. During preteen and adolescent years, profound and difficult questions sometimes arise- who am I? How and where do I fit? How do I find a place with others and hold onto a sense of myself? Struggles in these areas can lead to anxiety and depression. Sometimes pain and trauma from earlier years also reemerge powerfully. Sometimes questions around sexuality can also feel confusing. https://www.drkristinfiorella.com/psychoanalysis-psychotherapy daily 0.75 2021-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134608f8fadf32ab0875651/1631030230638-7RM4A7976WQ3SEW3SI4K/iStock-486094724.jpg Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy Psychotherapy tends to be more appropriate for someone wanting to work on an issue that is situational and not chronic, such as a transition or a loss. It involves meeting at a frequency of once or twice per week. Psychoanalysis is a more profound journey and requires more of a commitment both emotionally and in terms of time. It involves meeting at a frequency of 3 to 5 times per week. It is well suited to address longstanding difficulties and can lead to lasting change. Patients come to psychoanalysis to address a wide range of experiences such as anxiety, depression, trauma, interpersonal struggles, or a general feeling of not being fully alive- to name a few. Psychoanalysis provides the opportunity for a more penetrating exploration in the context of a therapeutic relationship that has more space to deepen. There is room to get closer to one’s conscious and unconscious life. Each psychoanalysis is different and unique. Patients often find over time that we are able to unravel rigid patterns of thinking, feeling and relating and that they experience more internal flexibility. They also often feel more open to dimensions of their being that initially feel inaccessible and/ or frightening. https://www.drkristinfiorella.com/awards daily 0.75 2025-10-10 https://www.drkristinfiorella.com/publications daily 0.75 2025-10-10 https://www.drkristinfiorella.com/faculty daily 0.75 2025-10-10 https://www.drkristinfiorella.com/events daily 0.75 2025-10-10