We live in challenging times where our deeper experiences are often diminished, hurried, or invalidated. When we experience profound loss—whether it is the havoc of a relationship separation, emotional neglect in childhood, or the weight of depression—the modern world demands that we keep performing.
But deep emotional challenges cannot be rushed or simply “fixed.” They require us to slow down, pause, and safely look at the experiences that are holding us back from feeling fully alive.
In our everyday lives, we build up defenses and performances to protect ourselves from pain and survive in the world. Together, we work to gently peel back these layers so we can safely look at the parts of you that have been left waiting in the dark.
In depth psychology, we do not view depression, anxiety, terror, or somatic pain as errors to be quickly patched over. Symptoms are meaningful expressions of deeper, underlying experiences that have been frozen in time. Instead of fighting the symptom, we listen to it. By exploring how you protect yourself (your defenses) and uncovering what those defenses are hiding, we begin the process of true, long-term healing.
My approach utilizes a relational, trauma-informed, and narrative lens. The psychotherapeutic process is a space of careful excavation. Together, we move slowly, following the roadmap of your feelings to reach the ruins of what has been buried—such as early childhood trauma, unacknowledged grief, or fears of abandonment.
We don’t just talk about these events intellectually; we “work through” them moment by moment. We go to the ground of who you are, meeting the bodily sensations and unresolved feelings as they arise in the room, until they can finally melt and integrate into your psyche.
Psychotherapy is ultimately a qualitatively growth-oriented process. It enables you to meet your psychological, emotional, and social difficulties exactly as they are. It is in the very midst of these frozen, painful difficulties that healing resides like a hidden treasure. By bringing insight and warmth to these spaces, the heavy symptoms naturally begin to subside, allowing you to live from a whole, authentic sense of self.
I offer a confidential, non-rushing online container on Zoom to work through complex emotional landscapes, including:
- Complex & Developmental Trauma (C-PTSD)
- Early Childhood Trauma and Emotional Neglect
- Bereavement, Mourning, and Deep Loss
- Identity Crises and Relational Instability
- Depression, Anxiety, and Chronic Somatic Pain
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