Develop your inner life
Most people find that coping with some feelings can be really difficult.
Often, preparing for unforeseen difficulties is something left to insurance companies and others encouraging you to leave things out of your own hands. There are, however, skills you can develop during times of well-being and happiness that will help you prepare for difficulties that arise without anticipation.
If you know how easy it is for unexpected events to occur even in the best-planned lives, you may benefit from preventive psychotherapy that builds on strengths and assesses resources for the future. Psychotherapy is of most benefit when it is deployed to prevent a crisis rather than to solve it. Such supportive, strengths-based therapy rarely includes medication or diagnosis.
It is easy to not change and instead to focus on being comfortable. Just when we need to take a long-term view, we may find ourselves sinking into inertia. We do not acknowledge that emotional upset is likely and reasonable and intently ignore signs of stress. And later we are quick to accuse ourselves or others of having a native disorder. Washing our hands, we say a person has anxiety disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, borderline personality, or schizophrenia. We suppose this sort of labeling is the solution to our problem.
We need stability and shelter and it can be most difficult to find our resources in the middle of crisis! In a demanding atmosphere we may lose touch with our natural selves, so that the self of warmth and compassion seems distant or almost irretrievable. Our true self is accessible through the therapeutic process, and this is the reason why some people are fearful of therapy. The therapeutic path can lead towards new experiences and an authentic life. Best of all, you can begin this journey when all is well.
In therapy you can expect to develop a graceful relationship. You will begin to feel more at ease with uncertainty, able to make transformations. New awareness and capacities emerge in an environment that is intuitive, welcoming and intimate. Wisdom traditions will assist our work as will the latest research in interpersonal neurobiology and behavior.
Sessions last either 50 or 95 minutes. I do not accept insurance. All forms of diversity are welcome.