Individual Therapy

Awareness creates possibility, practice creates capacity.

–Amanda Blake

Therapy, at its heart, is a practice of understanding one’s self more completely, so that new choices become possible.

This can include understanding:

The mind –

• Can I change my thoughts?
• How do I get a break from them?
• Where does that internal critical voice come from?
• What do I do with it when it is so loud?
• What do they have to do with my body and emotions?

The heart/emotions –

• What is the point of emotions, anyway?
• Why am I so moody or angry or fearful all the time?
• Can I just feel the good feelings, and get rid of the bad?
• What does my vulnerability have to do with wellbeing?

The body –

• What does my body have to do with my anxiety/depression/mood/ruminative thinking?
• How is it connected to who I am?
• How can I truly love my body when culture teaches me how flawed it is?

The spirit –

• Who am I really?
• Why am I here?
• What am I here to do?
• How does my spirituality/religion inform my life choices?

My particular approach to therapy is rooted in the belief that there is intelligence in and reason for all of your symptoms, even if on the surface, they seem dysfunctional.

By getting curious about your experience rather than judging it, we have much more of a chance of actually understanding the root of whats happening, and then how to more skillfully navigate it. 

There is a saying in therapy: what we can feel we can heal. What we resist, persists. The more we allow ourselves to face what is occurring, the more we begin to also experience that we are strong enough, capable, and at least partially, already free.