Counseling
Beginning a process of counseling requires a willingness to for a time to feel deeply unsettled. Often what brings us to see a therapist are the symptoms of an issue or struggle that runs much deeper into our sense of self, understanding of the world, and the nature of significant relationships. To return to the image of the dandelion, the flower is the manifestation of a complex root system. Without searching out the roots, your struggles will continue to resurface. Even when we want to do something differently, or feel differently, we end up creating what is familiar because without excavating that which is habitual, and experiencing a new way of being, we do not know how to live any other way. Essential to healing is deconstruction (uprooting), to allow for growth and construction of a healthier, more life-giving way of being and relating.
Healing comes through relationship. The process by which we, therapist and client, form an alliance to explore the nature of your struggles and concerns as they exist outside of the therapy-hour, but also as they are expressed between therapist and client within the relationship itself.
Specializing in...
- Issues of faith and spirituality
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Body Image issues
- Mind/Body integration
- Recovery from emotional, sexual and phsycial abuse
- Relationships and sexuality
- Mindfulness and meditation practices