I am Dr. L. Eileen Keller, Ph.D. (Psychologist/Psychoanalyst) and I can help:

Our early relationships have a life of their own in our minds, existing long past the actual relationship. How often do we suddenly feel that our mother is observing and reacting to us? How often do we find ourselves warming up quickly to a stranger only to realize later that he or she reminds us of someone important from the past? Psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis are possible because of our human tendency to project our internal relationships into any intense relationship. The therapeutic relationship is unique because both analyst and patient agree to take the patient as their object of study and understanding, unlike in ordinary relationships. This allows the patient's fantasies and emotional responses to the analyst to paint a picture of the patient's inner world, which leads to an understanding and gradual resolution of long-standing conflicts and makes room for a previously stagnant development of the self.