RYAN MALPHRUS LCSW-C

When working together we will have two main goals in managing your anxiety. First, is to provide some tools to manage the immediate symptoms including breathing and mindfulness exercises. These skills will not "fix" your anxiety, but help you manage the emotional storm and continue to live life. Our other goal will be to understand the source of the anxiety and what changes your emotional system is attempting to alert you of.

Men have unique challenges in life that needs specific and individualized support. Society has changed greatly in the past decades and so has the role for men in society. I am here to help support men find deep meaning and purpose to their lives in this ever changing landscape.

Trauma is not the event, but how event has changed who we are. I have worked for years to help people identify these changes due to traumatic events, gain skills to manage the high levels of emotions, and ultimately find a life strategy that works better for their current situation. If you feel like the same thing keeps on happening over and over, I can help you identify where the problem lies and make meaningful changes.

The foundation of my therapeutic work goes back to Carl Rogers and the Humanistic theory. I believe all people are inherently valuable and directed to good, but life often places barriers in the way of us reaching our potential. This idea underpins much of my work, seeing you as the expert on yourself and working collaboratively to figure out how to tap into your unique potential.

Acceptance and Commitment Theory provides concrete tools to help manage the emotional storms that tend to rule our lives. Our goal is not to rid ourselves of feelings, but to better understand how to manage those feelings when extreme and better understand what those emotions are trying to tell us.

Psychodynamic theory aims at uncovering motivations, emotions, thoughts, and conflicts that are below our level of conscious awareness. I have worked with countless people identifying these underlying motivations to better understand themselves and the relationships around them. Once we understand what the problem is, taking into account the entirety of ones life, solutions become obvious.

Men are currently struggling as society has continually changed and redefined roles. These challenges are showing up in employment, relationships, dating, and most importantly finding purpose. I work with men to understand who they are and how they can live a more authentic life in our current times.