I work best with clients who are not only wanting to resolve their issues, but who also have some abiding interest in inner exploration and self-discovery. In my experience, if we only approach therapy with the mindset of needing to fix, therapy can become heavy and mechanical. Even if we are working with difficult subjects, therapy is meant to engage a part of us that loves to know the truth about ourselves. When this happens, it is as though a flame lights up in us, which fuels our passion for self-inquiry. Then, therapy becomes more like an adventure, which can be very enjoyable, meaningful, and expansive.
I honor and respect the process of mental health diagnosis, but relying too much on this way of thinking can take the meaning away from our experience, which is what should activate our interest in self-inquiry. Whatever we're experiencing is full of meaning and not random. We're complex and full of depth. We deserve to give ourselves very close attention.
This process of giving our full attention to ourselves is love, and a loving act. You deserve to give that kind of care to yourself. It would be an honor to support you in your process, which I hope you can tell is, and will be, sacred to me. Therapy can give us gifts we could have never envisioned. Please visit my website to learn more about my practice.