Suffering: The challenge of being
Life can be difficult and is often painful. I am honored to work with you and committed to being there as you investigate suffering and explore how to make change. Cultivating greater awareness, emotional resilience and self-compassion begins with truly feeling your feelings–this is the challenge of being. As a trauma-informed, relational therapist I prioritize safety and find meaning in the way our working relationship reveals underlying psychic patterns.
Whole-hearted effort: Practice being human
There is nothing wrong with you, and you may want to make a few improvements (paraphrasing Zen teacher Suzuki Roshi). In psychotherapy you can practice with your whole self; however complicated, confusing, wounded or hopeless that self may feel at times. In this transformative space everything is welcome: shame, sorrow, joy, bewilderment, grief, uncertainty. The entire spectrum of dark and light aspects of self are vital elements of our shared humanity.
Cultivating compassion: Making the unconscious conscious
In therapy we’ll explore how you first learned love, identity, boundaries and connection with others. Each of us is unique: in emotions, bodies and minds, every person experiences the world through a singular lens. Our reality is profoundly shaped by the body, culture, class and family system in which we were born and raised. By patiently bringing curiosity to how you internally relate to yourself and the world at large, compassionate psychotherapy is an enlivening, pragmatic and liberatory practice.
