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About My Clients
To the misunderstood; to those who feel stuck or overwhelmed; to those who who believe they may be broken or will never be enough: I am called to meet you with curiosity, creativity, and understanding. I hold the deep conviction that life's conundrums and circumstances call for getting to know ourselves much more deeply while being seen, heard, and held in healing relationship and supportive community. I invite all of you, and to provide an environment where we explore saying everything.
My Background and Approach
Modern psychoanalysis is the culmination of theories and techniques developed over the last century which assert that our behaviors and beliefs about ourselves and the world originate from our earliest childhood experiences. They affirm that simply willing ourselves to change and even just understanding ourselves is not enough. It is the act of noticing, being curious, talking, and being seen and heard in therapeutic relationship that creates long-term healing. Our early experiences shape the way we come to be and survive in this world, the ways in which we do or do not attach to others in relationship, and the ways in which we develop patterns of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings as we respond to the world in the best way we know how. The analytic process helps us become more and more aware over time, bringing our unconscious thoughts, feelings, and motivations to the surface; we can then begin to feel safe enough to risk change in a way that puts us back in our own drivers' seat.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Being alive can be a dynamic, aching, joyful, unsettling, terrifying, dull, blissful (and all that is in between) experience, and there are a multitude of reasons that lead someone to seek counseling. For some, there is a specific and pressing issue. For others, a general long-felt feeling or pattern leads one to reach out. In any case, the ways in which to explore and understand the human mind and experience are limitless. Understanding ourselves literally, metaphorically, biologically, interpersonally, artistically, and existentially is just a piece what it means to grasp what it is to be us. For some, it may be easy, gratifying, and helpful to discuss openly those vast feelings and put words to those experiences. For others, it may be more true that putting words to things is a challenge and so the task may be to get curious about what makes that so. Counseling unfolds like a rose where we learn we are not good or bad, but good enough.