PSYCHOTHERAPY

“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.”
― Pema Chödrön

Therapy asks that you show up for yourself with bravery, curiosity and compassion. Therapy is not only useful for reducing symptoms, but for personal growth and transformation; helping people awaken to their purpose, increase their experience of pleasure, deepen their interpersonal relationships, find meaning in their work, and uncover a greater capacity for love.

The goal of psychotherapy is to help you learn how to live in the full awareness of who you are beneath the learned patterns, limiting beliefs, and false-stories you have come to accept as truth. Learning to appreciate and understand your feelings as reasonable, valid responses to your experiences without judgement helps build emotional tolerance and maturity allowing you to live in the present instead of living your life through a past lens.

The process of psychotherapy teaches us how to work with uncomfortable emotions, to sit with the pain of rejection and abandonment, and face the paralysis of our fears with compassion and forgiveness.

Therapy is largely based on the connection between client and therapist and the experiences shared between them in the safety of the therapeutic container.