(He/His)

Psychotherapist

Adults & Couples

Telehealth Only

Psychoanalysis is a process for our intractable concerns. It offers not a cure for life but a means to access its vehemence. There is little space in our city to be ourselves without censor, without the fear of oversight or blowback. By contrast, analysis is designed for one to speak freely; it makes room to seek out what is truly and irreducibly one’s own.

One often begins analysis when something feels off — anxiety, depression, or other difficulties tag along as unwelcome companions in our daily experience. Analysis is structured to identify where these troubles are coming from and what can be done about it.

Each clinical journey follows its singular path and prepares encounters with the unknown—experiences that go beyond whatever the world has made one out to be so far, especially as it relates to the complexities of sexuality, race, class, and gender. This atmosphere moves as an environment free of judgment, a place to find and enhearten the forces that make us most alive.

I work with folks from all walks of life and have experience in group, couples’, and family therapies. My clinical areas of research include: mourning; the arts; climate catastrophe; extinction.

BIO

Scott Garlinger is a clinician and writer with a background in the culture industry and labor organizing. His book, Fashioning Psychoanalysis, is under contract with Punctum Books. His current clinical research is on the work of Paul Preciado. Previously, he held roles at Groupmuse, Guarneri Hall, and The Renaissance Society. His education includes a Master of Divinity and a Master of Mental Health Counseling from Trinity International University and continues with the Freudian School of Québec.