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About My Clients
Clients often come to me in the midst of an important transition, when the way through seems clouded and unclear. You may want to shift old patterns or develop more sustaining relationships. Maybe you're trying to make sense of a major loss, or find clarity about your life's aim and intention. Feelings of defeat, worthlessness, confusion, and even excessive worry are normal and human. When we can give our feelings the attention they ask for, they tend to guide us in useful directions.
My Background and Approach
Healing can happen when we feel safe and known. I've been told I work with warmth, patience, and a sense for what lives beneath the surface of our stories, trying to emerge. My style is emotionally engaged & direct, but also gentle. I have advanced training in Jungian Psychology, so I bring focus to parts of your personality that have been hidden from consciousness, and I work to help you uncover & develop the vitality there. I listen closely for repeated patterns in your behavior, thoughts & feelings, and for tendencies & assumptions that may be governing your life without your full awareness. We may talk about your feelings, memories, current life and - if you like - your dreams, treating them as a doorway to your creative capacity & your deeper instincts. I am also Somatically trained, and I may add mindfulness, body awareness, creative arts practices, or nature-based therapy to our work, depending on interest and appropriateness.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Psychotherapy is a practice of developing your capacity to live – to work, love, and play – in the midst of life’s highs and lows. It’s a practice of self-reflection. It can help you to better understand yourself and to make sense of unhelpful patterns you've been repeating. With greater self-awareness, you can learn to be less at odds with yourself, and make more satisfying choices. My role is to accompany you in an introspective dialogue. I take for granted an inner wisdom alive in your unconscious, though it may be clouded by habit and by injury. I work with you to help you meet and relate to that wisdom, so you can begin to use it in your life. I bring a non-judgmental focus and a natural curiosity, both to your story and to your personal way of making meaning from it. Good psychotherapy depends on the right relationship. I welcome you to call me for a brief initial consultation at no charge. If we both feel there is a fit, we can decide to begin work together.