Margaret McNeal (she/her)

Anxiety benefits from a "roots" and "branches" approach. We will work to create safety, grounding, and your capacity for self-regulation, while also exploring the underlying, unique, unconscious context from which anxiety occurs. By unfolding the particular qualities of your anxiety and understanding where it originates and what it wants, we will work toward long lasting change, freeing the energy back into the flow of your life.

Self-Esteem issues are often rooted in the unconscious and tied to messages from our personal history or the dominant culture. Together, we will uncover and shift the hidden dynamics bringing you down. Be it an inner critic or internalized abuse, we will work to create a more compassionate and empowering relationship with yourself that sees and celebrates your gifts, helping to bring them to fruition.

Personal growth is an exploratory process towards becoming more congruent: a state of alignment between beliefs, values, actions, and speech; an integrative interrelationship between our worldly and soul selves. Therapy is geared towards actualizing the highest possible good within yourself in the world, and to deepening your experience of life and meaning. Through relationships, dreams, body experiences, mindfulness, art, and more, we will explore and expand your unique nature and awareness.

Depth therapy includes psychodynamic and transpersonal approaches to psychotherapy—meaning, we will look beneath the surface level of your symptoms to discover how to heal and integrate, as well as discover threads of meaning woven through your inner and outer experiences that connect you with the web of life. We may use parts work, relationship, dreams, body, art, and the "here-and-now"/present-centered approaches in therapy.

The body is an essential aspect of our self and wellbeing. Modern science echoes the wisdom held in many ancient traditions that the body is integral to our psychology, that psyche and soma are not separate. Somatic work can powerfully reveal and heal hidden aspects of our experience through exploration of movement, posture, and symptoms. Somatic work is also a useful complement to trauma work and IFS/"parts work" that helps facilitate regulation and expansion of the self.

Unlike symptom-focused, brief therapeutic modalities, psychodynamic therapy is proven to create sustained, lasting change. Psychodynamic therapy facilitates self-exploration, understanding relationship patterns, and examining emotional blind spots; by addressing root cause, symptoms can shift.