“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step,you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.”

— Joseph Cambell

Thoughts on Therapy

What therapy is: A co-created safe space to reflect on the current issues and historical concerns you would like to address. You can use this time to identify goals and values that can help pull you towards the life and feelings you would like to inhabit. It is a safe space to feel the feelings and voice your concerns without judgement.

Whether you are having challenges with grief or a transition in your life, let’s help you focus your energy on what you want and what you need. The aim is to help you understand principal ideas and create solutions that will allow you to experience your life, and end-of-life to the fullest.

Therapy can be a challenging endeavor and sometimes things feel worse before they get better, therefore commitment to the therapeutic process is an important part of reaching long term goals. I believe building a trusting therapeutic alliance is the key to therapeutic change.

Since each individual is the expert on his or her own life and needs, the therapeutic process is shaped around the goals that you set for yourself, your relationship or your family. I believe that family of origin experiences are an important influence on current relationship dynamics and behavioral patterns, so it is likely that we will spend some time exploring those experiences.

What therapy is not: advice and/or answers given to you. This is a co-created space to explore YOUR goals and how you want to tackle the challenges in front of you. Please note- I am not a psychiatrist/medication provider and cannot offer prescriptions or testing of any kind.

Possible goals & outcomes

Possible goals in therapy: feel less reactive to others or experiences, feel less overwhelmed by grief, improved communication, personal exploration, psychological awareness, emotional support, reduced feelings of anxiety or depression, cognitive changes, behavioral changes, reflection on family of origin or past trauma, and system adjustment.

What and who do you want to be in this world? What is your purpose? And how do you get there? These are some questions that bring you to therapy. Welcome to your space to find your why. Dive deep, get answers.

Examples of possible improvements include: improving relationships, reducing depression or anxiety, reducing conflict, feeling better, improving life satisfaction, grief feeling manageable, finding clarity, discovering parts of the self, etc.

“Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy