Christopher McCann, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Candidate Psychoanalyst

If you are experiencing persistent anxiety, chronic worry and unease, or the fatigue of depression that diminishes your sense of the future, you are seeking help beyond skills and advice. The distress you feel may be connected to addiction, relationship ruptures, complex trauma, long-term burnout, or the aftermath of sudden life transitions— or even relates back to moments in your childhood. I offer virtual psychoanalytic sessions to individuals across Washington, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Georgia. We begin with the unconditional welcome to speak what feels most real for you—freely, gradually, and without censorship. Dreams, fantasies, passions, and memories. Crises, complaints, and those stagnating repetitions that always return. You are invited to read deeply into yourself and to voice the 'other scenes' that appear between the lines of daily experience. We will take what troubles you and opens its interior dimensions through the spoken encounter of each session. This depth-oriented approach calls into question the very causes of your distress. Over time, this sustained discovery gives rise to renewed energy and singular knowledge of oneself, making possibilities for desire to be woven into your life in creative ways. If you are ready to invest in lasting change and bring new choices within reach, contact me today.

I am authorized by the PSYPACT commission to practice interjurisdictional telepsychology (APIT). This credential allows me to provide analytic work to residents in over 39 participating states. Main areas of concentration include the Washington DC Metro Area, Chicago, Seattle, and Philadelphia. Psychoanalysis is a therapeutic practice that animates and works with your unconscious through free association, dreams, attention to the idiosyncrasies of your language, and what emerges in our relationship over time. This approach invites you to discover what drives your symptoms from within, unfolding at the pace of your own discovery rather than applying external techniques and solutions.

I have extensive training and experience across the domains listed here. However, psychoanalysis refuses to reduce who you are to diagnostic labels. Instead, we work with what is intimately yours: your desires, conflicts, impasses, and the unique logic of your symptoms. This sustained inquiry addresses root causes and creates transformation beyond symptom management.