Psychotherapy
Hello I’m Cody Snyder
I work with people who have found it difficult to sustain themselves in the world, those who have withdrawn from relationships, from the future, from themselves. My clinical orientation is relational and psychodynamic, which means I take seriously not just what you present, but the deeper rhythms of your inner life: the patterns that repeat, the regions of experience that have been foreclosed or pushed out of reach, and the ways your history shapes what feels possible now.
I am drawn to clients navigating profound alienation, isolation, and withdrawal, those who feel that something essential in them has been muted, or that the world has become a place they can no longer inhabit. My work is not about quick adjustment or symptom management.
I support clients working through depression, anxiety, grief, social withdrawal, and relational difficulty. I also offer support for psychedelic integration, helping clients make meaning of and metabolize experiences that can be as disorienting as they are revelatory.
If you live in the state of California, I am available to book for therapy appointments via telehealth under the supervision of Dr. Cheryl Tien, PsyD #PSY36121
How I Work
My approach is relational and psychodynamic, which means I am less interested in teaching you techniques than in understanding, together, the shape of your inner life, the patterns that repeat, the ways desire and dread organize your days, and the reasons for the symptom that you have developed.
I pay close attention to rhythm. The pacing of how you move through time, when you engage and when you retreat, what accelerates and what exhausts, where vitality pools and where it drains. These rhythms carry information that narrative, and meaning making alone often do not reach, and learning to read them is part of what we do together.
The therapeutic relationship is the work; it is not incidental to it. How you are with me, how I am with you, what becomes possible or impossible between us: these are not just reflections of your patterns elsewhere, they are live occurrences of them, available to be understood in real time. This is where the work begins.
I utilize much of my research on ontological-exhaustion, rhythmanalysis, psychoanalysis, and schizoanalysis, along with my own experience of withdrawal, to develop relational psychotherapy with a philosophical foundation for those in need.
