The goal isn’t to fix yourself. You’re not broken.
Many people come to therapy feeling caught in patterns that can be concerning and hard to shift. Anxiety, self-doubt, or low moods can lead to struggling with relationships, work, and overall sense of self. These can include ongoing harmful behaviors, feeling creatively or professionally stuck, rumination and persistent worry, perfectionism, or confusion about your direction in life. This can often contribute to social and emotional isolation. I often support people navigating challenging life transitions, processing grief and shame, and working through traumatic experiences.
The medicine for suffering is love.
This can require gently touching into vulnerable and sensitive areas of fear, sadness, anger, and loss, and transforming them into sources of wisdom and strength.
My approach is conversational, guided by curiosity, and grounded in mindfulness and compassion-based therapy, integrating multiple approaches in a collaborative way that best suit you.
We move towards reconnecting to a sense of clarity, ease, and authenticity.
Rather than trying to simply eliminate unwanted thoughts or emotions, we focus on deeply understanding and changing how you relate to them, and thus decreasing their intensity, power, and control on your life.
In practice, this means learning how to:
notice thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in a non-judgmental way
stay with difficult emotions without becoming overwhelmed or governed by them
make meaningful sense of your experiences
respond with more awareness and self-compassion rather than reacting automatically or compulsively in harmful ways
align how you are living with your core values
Over time, people often experience significant and sometimes surprising insights and change.
Many people become more trusting of themselves and are able to honestly express themselves in relationships. It can also become easier to be present, grounded, and connected with your work, values, and sense of self during the inevitable difficult moments that life brings.
Ultimately therapy can help build your capacity to be more compassionate, caring, and accepting towards yourself and others, and from that place, new ways of being can open up.
If this approach resonates with you, contact me to schedule a free 20-minute phone call to see if working together feels like a good fit.