About
Cheri L. Hausmann LMFT PhD-Candidate
I am an insight-based marriage and family therapist with a background in wellness, history, and philosophy. I seek to help clients cultivate a deeper understanding of their own experiences as a pathway for meaningful growth. My specialty includes helping clients uncover and work through unconscious or difficult-to-express aspects of their experience. I help couples heal from infidelity and trust concerns. I assist parents in reaching their adolescents through understanding and compassion. I guide individuals struggling with depression to find the light again.
Therapeutic Framework
From a clinical perspective, I draw on psychoanalytic and existential approaches rooted in object relations theory. As a doctoral candidate, my research explores the relational and existential dimensions of grief, reflecting my commitment to understanding the deeper forces that shape healing. With experience across private practice, academia, and large clinical settings, I seek to bring compassion, depth, and flexibility to supporting individuals and families on their own journeys of healing and growth.
Personal Path
Beyond my clinical work, I embrace the power of nature as a source of wisdom and renewal, and I find inspiration through travel, reading, and engaging in a spiritual path that informs my sense of meaning and purpose.
Philosophical Interests & Research
My work is deeply informed by philosophical inquiry, particularly the Enlightenment era and its enduring impact on how we understand the self, consciousness, and human freedom. Thinkers such as René Descartes, with his famous articulation of cogito, ergo sum, laid the groundwork for modern conceptions of subjectivity.
Building on this historical foundation, my engagement with psychoanalytic theory explores the complexities of the unconscious, emotional life, and relational patterns that shape our inner worlds. I draw from Freud, Jung, Winnicott, Klein, and Lacan, attending to how early experiences influence adult subjectivity and interpersonal dynamics.
In parallel, my interest in existential philosophy, such as in the works of Kierkegaard, N̶i̶e̶t̶z̶s̶c̶h̶e̶, Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, and others, centers on the human confrontation with freedom, mortality, authenticity, and meaning.
Explore my blog for insights into the historic roots of psychoanalysis and its deep connections to philosophy and the history of ideas.