​Meet Jaime

Before I was a therapist, I spent years as a businessman and CEO. I knew the outward markers of a full life — work, family, responsibility — and I also knew how hard it can be to feel like yourself inside all of it. It was that struggle that first brought me to the analytic couch in São Paulo, Brazil, where I grew up. I went in skeptical. I came out changed — enough that I decided to leave my career, train as a clinician, and bring this work to others.

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That experience still shapes how I practice. Many of the people I work with are capable, accomplished, and thoughtful — and quietly stuck in some corner of their lives that doesn't yield to effort or insight. You're brilliant in most of what you do, so why does this one thing keep repeating? It isn't a matter of intelligence. The mind is deep and largely hidden from itself, and there are places we simply can't reach alone. My work is to help you understand your own inner world well enough that real change becomes possible — change that fits you, rather than advice that doesn't.

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I'm a licensed psychotherapist (LMHC, LPC) practicing psychodynamic therapy with adults via telehealth in New York, New Jersey, and Florida. I trained at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis (AIP) in New York. I work in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Yiddish and Hebrew.

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How I work

As a psychodynamic therapist, my approach is grounded in the psychoanalytic tradition — a way of working focused on deep emotional insight, lasting change, and greater self-understanding. It's conversational and process-focused: rather than treating symptoms alone, we pay attention to patterns — what repeats, what gets avoided, and how emotions, relationships, and defenses shape your experience.

When people picture therapy, they often imagine talking about childhood or exploring dreams. That image may feel like a cliché, but it comes from a powerful, time-tested approach: psychoanalysis. Psychodynamic therapy, though shorter and more accessible, does much the same work — helping you understand how unconscious patterns, often rooted in early relationships, shape the way you feel, think, and relate to others today. It's typically once or twice a week, and the goal isn't short-term symptom relief but meaningful, lasting change.

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Looking beneath the surface

You might come to therapy with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, or difficulty in relationships. Beneath those struggles, there are often untold stories and patterns formed long ago that still shape your present. This work makes space to explore them — to ask: Why do I keep ending up in the same situations? What am I avoiding? What do I actually want? As awareness deepens, so does your sense of freedom: you begin to notice the choices you have in how you relate to others, respond to stress, and live your life. Feelings and reactions are treated as meaningful, not random, and insight emerges from connection and reflection rather than quick techniques. This is not brief, tools-only, or solution-focused therapy — it is steady work over time.

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Is this work for you? 

This approach tends to suit adults who:

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• Find themselves repeating the same problems in relationships, work, or emotional life

• Feel unchanged by insight or past efforts

• Live with chronic anxiety, self-criticism, shame, or a sense of stuckness

• Notice patterns of avoidance or self-sabotage

• Sense that earlier experiences continue to shape their present

• Want to understand why things are the way they are, not just manage them

We meet weekly or more often, via telehealth, and work steadily over time.​​​​​​​​

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