BREATHE

Like breathing, emotions are primarily unconscious and drive your life choices – and manifest in behavior and symptoms.

Contemporary psychoanalytic psychotherapy helps you stay with and tolerate these unconscious feelings that drive negative behaviors or bad choices that interfere with healthy love, work and play.

Just like breathing in and out in a repetitive manner helps the body renew at the cellular level, the repetition of feeling and remembering will allow you to let go of original reactions and birth new ways of coping and feeling.

Breathe in clean fresh air on a mountain while hiking and breathe out toxic air from city life. Breathe in new ways of thinking and feeling, breathe out toxic relationships, poor choices, and all that interferes with your capacity to play.

There is more to life…

Searching for help, calling and coming in for therapy is an act of faith that you are believing there is more to life than what you are currently feeling.

Most people come into treatment because they are stuck and cannot find a way out on their own. After all, we are not born onto an island but in relation to another. There is no baby without its mother, and no mother without a baby.

So, together, as adults we will discover where you are stuck and how you got there. If you are feeling fragmented, that is a clue; if you are feeling overwhelmed and just don’t know how to explain what is going on, that is another clue.

You may be having symptoms of not eating, or eating too much, not sleeping, or sleeping too much – again, these are clues. If you are having medical issues such as seizures or digestive issues, these are different kinds of clues.

Our initial time together will feel like coming into my kitchen for a cup of freshly brewed hot cinnamon stick tea, but I am listening and observing all the ways that you are feeling in pain from your mind, from your heart, from your body and how these manifests in your love, work and play.

This is called a diagnostic evaluation. I then discuss the best recommendation to set you up for success. After all, not everyone can take their tea without sugar, and some may need a cinnamon stick without the tea bag to drink the tea at their preferred temperature. The art of tea making and drinking is a complicated process and so are your emotional needs in order to get unstuck.