Psychotherapist

(He/Him)

Adults & Adolescents

In Person & Telehealth Locations

Supervisor: Sara Wolfson, LCSW

Psychoanalysis is a practice of freedom. Its aim is to allow one to be capable of a free act and to create a place in the world for one's desire. The journey toward a free act, emerging through speech—by giving language to fears and passions, repetitions and encounters, jokes, tangents, anecdotes—is necessarily one we undertake together, with and through the other.

I believe from personal experience—my own and that of my patients—in the reality and complexity of change, in our growing capacity to intervene in our thought- and feeling-patterns, in a widening range of self- and other-experience. This kind of clinical work is filled not with jargon and advice, but with presence and speech. It's the pursuit of a singular, uncharted course toward making contact with your inner life. The only rule is to say whatever comes into your head.

I currently work with adults of all ages and backgrounds. I engage in deep listening with all my senses and (forty-odd) years. My lifelong exercise of presence and connection with people across wide gulfs of experience gives me a unique perspective from which to engage with my patients. The development of my unconscious faculties through the practice of poetry—the art of overhearing self and other—has also contributed greatly to my practice of psychoanalysis.

Lee Posna, LMSW received a Masters in social work from Hunter College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He is a candidate at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies.