Mark Allen Resch (he, him)

I start with the Dynamic Maturation Model of attachment, which treats all forms of attachment behavior as adaptive within specific threat/relational contexts. I apply this understanding of the DMM when working with clients to guide therapy and help clients to design attachment responses to better fit their current environment.

I've trained in Narrative Therapy with the Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy, at both the introduction and advanced levels. I use narrative therapy to help clients reframe their experiences and develop a new, empowering story about themselves. I encourage clients to explore the stories they have been telling themselves and work towards creating a more positive and empowering ones.

I use Internal Family Systems to provide clients with an externalizing perspective that provides a way of understanding the various parts of their internal world. This non-pathologizing view enables a client to coordinate the internal activities in more adaptive ways.

Anxiety is a reaction to our internal emotional state as if it is constantly communicating about actual danger from the environment. I find that it's possible to successfully address anxiety through a combination of mindful awareness practices, understanding the protective role of anxious parts, and authoring a desired more adaptive story.

Mine is the high-functioning kind of caseload: you deliver at work, hold it together in the room, and lie awake at 2am running postmortems. We work on what the anxiety is protecting you from, not just techniques to quiet it.

Poly, open, and design-your-own-structure relationships get therapy here that starts from how your relationships actually work, not a lecture on how they should. Agreements, jealousy, new-partner turbulence, polycule dynamics: this is trained specialization, and you won't spend sessions educating me.

Couples usually arrive already knowing their pattern and tired of repeating it anyway. We work out what the fight is really about, then rehearse a different move until it shows up when it counts.

The story you tell about yourself isn't just a story. Memory research shows retelling is editing: each time a memory is reactivated, it can be revised before it settles again. Narrative work uses that deliberately. We find the places where your story got written by someone else, and revise it against the evidence of the life you're actually living.