Mary McDonald

About Us

We may seek treatment to cope with stress, work through a crisis, gain relief from pain, or escape from troubling patterns. Couples can feel at a loss to connect with one another, to regain the spark that once came so easily. We can feel stuck, calcified. Therapy can address these issues, and in doing so can can also provide more than expected: greater adaptability and resourcefulness, and a livelier relationship with one’s self and with others. , Our difficulties are often compounded by feeling we have lost touch with our natural intuitions and strengths. I have advanced psychodynamic and psychoanalytic training directed towards helping individuals and couples reconnect with those resources, and even to go further - to access undiscovered capabilities within themselves. , Insight can illuminate the path to discovery, reconnection and growth, but insight in a vacuum is cold comfort indeed. My clients describe me as earnest, approachable, warm, and, yes - insightful. I am not an aloof practitioner, believing the work needs to be done in a companionable, accepting space with someone who is truly present.