You know when something's off before you can name it.

You feel it when a relationship suddenly shifts. You sense it in your body when you're performing a version of yourself that isn't quite real. You recognize the moments when your inner world and outer life are aligned—conversations deepen, creativity flows, you stop bracing.

And you know when that alignment breaks. When you're overexplaining, overthinking, going numb.

What if you could read the pattern underneath all of it?

Not just what you're feeling, but why it keeps showing up. What it's protecting. What it's asking you to become.

Hi, I'm Andra

I'm a licensed clinical psychologist, and for nearly two decades I've been working with people at the intersection of depth psychology and mystical practice.

My training is traditional—I hold a doctorate in clinical psychology and have extensive post-graduate training in psychodynamic therapy, somatic approaches, and developmental psychology. I understand the architecture of the psyche: how trauma gets encoded, how defense structures form, how early attachment shapes every relationship that follows.

But early in my clinical work, I kept running into the same wall: insight alone doesn't create transformation.

I'd sit with brilliant, self-aware people who could articulate their patterns with stunning clarity—and still couldn't change them. They understood why they did things. They just couldn't do them differently.

That's when I started looking beyond the clinical world for what was missing.

I'd always been drawn to the symbolic and the mystical—astrology, tarot, Jewish mysticism, archetypal psychology. Not as spiritual decoration, but as precision instruments for reaching the parts of the psyche that resist ordinary language. The pre-verbal. The imaginal. The places where experience lives as image and metaphor before it becomes narrative.

I studied archetypal astrology intensively. Not to predict the future, but to understand how someone is psychologically wired—what core tensions they're here to integrate, where their growth edge lives, what their psyche keeps circling back to.

I trained in tarot as a projective tool—a way of dialoguing with the unconscious when direct inquiry hits a wall.

And I began integrating these frameworks into my clinical work, mapping them onto Eriksonian developmental theory and depth psychology.

What emerged was a way of working that honors both rigor and mystery. Clinical precision and symbolic depth. The psychological and the numinous.

The people who find me now aren't looking for traditional therapy. They've often already done that—sometimes for years. What they're looking for is the next layer: the work that happens after insight, in the space between understanding yourself and actually becoming different.

That's what I do here.

I work with a small number of clients in private practice. The work is relational, integrative, and goes to the root—not to fix you, but to help you become more fully who you actually are.

Welcome to Psyche & Salt. Pull up a chair. The deep end is warmer than it looks.