I’m a psychodynamic therapist in Ojai, California and work both in person and online.

People who work with me seek therapy for many reasons and your inherent uniqueness is at the heart of the process we cultivate together.

A part of my practice is dedicated to practitioners in the healing arts. I value the lineage of depth psychology and find working with students and other clinicians very meaningful.

Portrait of Danny Kantrowitz, psychodynamic psychotherapist, sitting on a tree stump from a former orange orchard in Ojai, California, surrounded by native and volunteer plants reclaiming the land as home and wildlife habitat-- the future office site

ojai, CA

Psychotherapy takes myriad forms and is a unique and emergent process. Meaning is formed on multiple registers: through language, body, play, image, relationship, and connection with the more-than-human world.

I’m also integrative in my approach, drawing from rich and diverse disciplines in relation to an individual’s inclinations, needs, and capacities. My training has focused on Jungian analytical psychology, relational psychoanalytic practice, somatic modalities, ecopsychology, and expressive arts therapies.

Education:

MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute

MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Arts, Washington University in Saint Louis

  • is an approach for processing overwhelming, stuck, or missing experiences. Some people seek out EMDR as a singular modality. For others, it becomes one aspect of exploration among many as our work unfolds. Either way, the relational foundation matters.

  • speak in their own languages, on their own terms. They often reveal in curious ways what can't yet be known and fully felt. Cultivating intentional relationship with dreams orients us to unconscious processes alive within and around us. We engage with dreams to listen and let them teach us.

  • often emphasize direct experience rather than interpretation, sparking creative pathways into deeper relationship. Image-making, movement/dance, engagement with art materials, sandplay—all make space for the imaginative, emergent, and ineffable.

  • connection is born from the recognition that we're part of a vast and interdependent living world. How we relate to place, to animals, plants, diverse materialities, and to cycles of growth and decay—these are all integral aspects of our psychological life. 

  • psychology recognizes that our personal struggles often carry larger patterns—themes of descent and renewal, loss and transformation, exile and return. Dreams, symptoms, and life crises often carry archetypal dimensions, connecting personal suffering to universal human experiences. This perspective can bring dignity and meaning to what feels most isolating.