About My Work as a Psychotherapist and Psychoanalyst

 

Welcome to Dr. Freddy's Office and The Interactive World of Emotions ®

 

I make psychoanalysis accessible to people who’d never sit on a couch.

It isn’t a profession for me. It’s a calling — an art, a discipline, a lifelong devotion to the human soul. My work builds one kind of space: where the unspoken finally gets spoken, where the body can breathe, where you stop performing long enough to arrive at this is me.

 

Therapy is a partnership. You and I sit with the whole of it — what you say and what you can’t yet say — and we listen for the unconscious moving underneath. I work relationally and psychodynamically: honoring the earliest relationships that shaped you while staying close to what’s alive in the room. Not to fix you. To free you.

 

Training & Teaching

 

B.S. in Psychology, Prairie View A&M. M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Antioch University Los Angeles. Psy.D. in Applied Clinical Psychology, The Chicago School. I completed the Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program at The New Center for Psychoanalysis and earned my diploma as a certified psychoanalyst in June, 2024.

 

I’m board certified as a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis (FABP) in adult psychoanalysis, earned in May, 2026 — the field’s highest voluntary credential, a level of achievement beyond licensure, demonstrated through clinical competence. I’m also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California, Texas, Colorado, and Florida, and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA).

 

I teach because I can’t not. As an Associate Professor at The Chicago School, I teach advanced psychoanalytic theory to doctoral students and chair their dissertations — sitting with them as they find the work that’s theirs to do. At The New Center for Psychoanalysis, I serve on the faculty of the two-year Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program.

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The Work

Thirteen-plus years with individuals, couples, families, and groups. I trained at Family Service Agency of Burbank, The Chicago School Counseling Center of West LA, and Airport Marina Counseling Services, then completed two post-doctoral fellowships in private practice. Today I keep a private practice and direct The Interactive World of Emotions in Beverly Hills — for people ready for real change, whether through a transition, a rupture, a creative block, or the old patterns running the show from underneath.

Children & Adolescents

 

I work with children and adolescents, and I hold it as sacred. These are tender, misunderstood years, and they build everything that comes after. With young people I go gently — through play, story, and honest talk — helping them name what they don’t yet have words for. A place to grow without fear or shame.

 

Author & Creator

 

That same devotion took me past the consulting room. I’m the author of The Harder I Try The Tougher It Gets and the creator of Todo and The Interactive World of Emotions® — a character, a book, and a growing series that teach children and families to feel, name, and move through emotion together. The same work as the couch, in a language a child can hold.

 

Speaking

 

I speak to schools, universities, conferences, companies and organizations on the emotional architecture of everyday life. My signature talk — Emotional Instillation: The Architecture of Everyday Life — is about how our earliest emotional rooms become the houses we live in as adults, and what it takes to rebuild them.

Inquiries: contact@drfreddysoffice.com.

 

Art, Athletics & the Couch

 

I came up through the arts and through sport, and both still shape how I work. As a SAG-AFTRA actor in film and television — with work in distribution and representation by The Option Agency — I know the performer’s inner life: the vulnerability, the identity bound up in the work. As a former NCAA Division I athlete, I know what the body carries — the pressure, the discipline, the private wars no one sees. My doctoral research lived right there, where mood meets movement.

 

Standing on the true nature of the work and creativity. 

Art has no limits

The mind is a beautiful thing