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Psychotherapy
What Does It Mean to Be You?
You may know yourself through the roles you hold, the people you care for, or what others have come to expect of you. Yet your own feelings, needs, and preferences may be harder to recognize. Perhaps familiar reactions keep showing up, even when you understand them.
Psychotherapy offers time to explore your experience in an ongoing relationship with someone who listens carefully. There is room to speak openly, consider what has shaped you, and discover what matters to you beyond what you have learned to manage or provide for others.
“We trade out authenticity for attachment…When we are forced to choose between the two, we choose attachment, because to an infant or a child, lack of attachment is a death sentence.” -Gabor Maté
Why Do People Seek Psychotherapy?
You may be carrying something that's become difficult to manage on your own. Anxiety keeps you anticipating problems. Depression leaves you feeling distant from people and activities you care about. Trauma, grief, parenting, or a life transition may have unsettled your sense of yourself. You might appear to be managing while feeling exhausted or alone inside.
Sometimes the concern is a relationship or a recurring question: Why is it so hard to ask for what I need? Why do I pull away when I want closeness? Why am I so hard on myself? Other times, you simply recognize that the way you have been getting through no longer feels sustainable.
People also come because they want to know themselves more fully. You do not need to be in crisis to want support, a different perspective, or space to consider how you want to live.
What Becomes Possible When You Get Curious About Yourself?
Together, we explore your thoughts, emotions, physical responses, and how you relate to yourself and others. We consider how familiar patterns developed, what they helped you navigate, and whether they still fit your life today.
Getting curious about different parts of you can help make sense of conflicting feelings. One part may long for connection while another pulls away. You may feel angry while also worrying about disappointing someone. Together, we listen to what each part wants you to understand, without rushing to resolve the tension or decide how you should feel.
Our relationship can also become part of the conversation. If you feel misunderstood, hesitate to disagree, or worry about asking for something, we can explore that together. These moments offer opportunities to express what you might usually hold back and experience a response that takes your feelings seriously.
Getting to know yourself includes more than understanding difficulty. We also explore what you value, what you enjoy, where your limits are, and what you want for yourself.
How Might We Begin?
Start with what is here
We might begin with a recent moment that has stayed with you: agreeing to something you did not want, leaving a conversation feeling hurt, or becoming frustrated without knowing why.
Get curious
As you describe it, we explore what you felt, what you wanted to say or do, and what made that difficult. Perhaps you notice tension as you imagine disagreeing, sadness beneath irritation, or uncertainty about whether your needs matter.
Make room for choice
From there, we consider what needs attention. You may want to understand your reaction, acknowledge a feeling, or practice putting a need into words. We'll shape the direction through our conversation, with time to discover what fits.
Is This for You?
This work may appeal to you if you want a place to speak openly, understand recurring difficulties, and explore your experience with someone who pays attention to both what you say and how you feel as you say it.
A free 20-minute phone consultation offers time to share what you are looking for, ask questions, and see whether working together feels right.
What Can You Expect
Sessions are 45 minutes and primarily conversational. At times, we may pause to notice a sensation, emotion, impulse, or change in how you experience our conversation. This helps us stay connected to what is happening for you as we talk.
My approach brings together body awareness, compassionate attention to different parts of your experience, and exploration of your relationships. You can ask questions, tell me when something doesn't fit, or ask for a different direction. Your feedback helps shape our work.