WHY THERAPY?
Being alive is a constant process of evolution and transformation, sometimes seemingly without our input. At times, the ever-evolving quality of life can feel exciting and expansive, and at others, it can feel overwhelming and chaotic. Psychotherapy provides a unique opportunity for the client and therapist to curiously engage with, untangle, and understand life’s processes—beginning to understand the inner world and its effect on the external. In doing so, we enrich our awareness of the inner world and become more able to find stillness and movement from within.
Using the words of psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion, it is from this “dark and formless infinite” that the finite is “won.” The therapeutic task, then, is not to impose structure prematurely but to allow a formless experience, witnessed by an attuned therapist, to occur. In doing so, a softening of rigid defenses and old patterns begins, inviting symbols, feelings, memories, thoughts, and desires to emerge in service to a fuller expression of the self. It is a process much like playing, where creative impulses are given the freedom to evolve from the unknown. The ultimate goal is to cultivate a sense of self that feels embodied, integrated, and more deeply connected to both personal truth and relational others . . .
. . . adding form to formlessness.
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Within formless aspects of the psyche lie hidden possibilities—unstructured moments where transformation can take root within, and the self, in its truest essence, begins to emerge.
Therapy for . . .
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INDIVIDUALS
Individual therapy to cultivate an inner awareness of your wants, needs, and patterns.
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COUPLES
Couples therapy focused on attunement, understanding, and reparative experiences together.
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KIDS & TEENS
Therapy to understand and ride the waves of a tumultuous and exciting period of growth.