Adrian Larsen Sanchez

My Approach to Helping

I approach therapy as a collaboration, rooted in understanding each person as an individual in the context of their family, history, culture and daily life. I particularly value the vital role of deepening insight into emotional issues, developing satisfying relationships and realistic self-esteem for healing, growth and sustainable symptom relief. I primarily practice psychoanalytic psychotherapy, an evidence based treatment, though I am also able to integrate techniques from other therapy models (e.g. cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapy). [Read more about psychoanalytic psychotherapy here: http://www.apsa.org/content/psychoanalytic-psychotherapy.] As a part of my practice, I also offer collaborative/therapeutic psychological assessment (testing). In collaborative/therapeutic assessment, patients are engaged to develop questions about themselves to be addressed through the assessment. Validated psychological tests are used to help illuminate underlying difficulties.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I earned my doctorate in clinical psychology at Pacific University and completed my clinical internship at Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NYC. I completed my postdoctoral fellowship at Kaiser Permanente, NW Division and a fellowship in psychoanalysis at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education/NYU School of Medicine. I am a graduate of the 4 year psychoanalytic training program at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.