Our Approach
We believe good therapy is pure magic. This magic is in part developed through a safe, trusting, and secure relationship between therapist and client. Because we heal in and through relationships, we take great care in fostering a strong therapeutic bond with our clients.
We believe all emotional suffering stems from unprocessed experiences throughout one's life. These unprocessed experiences build a “pain body” that lives inside us and expresses itself in our daily lives. We desire to help our clients name their pain, understand their pain, accept their pain, feel their pain, and eventually heal their pain. It is said that you can’t heal what you don’t feel, so helping our clients build enough emotional resilience to feel through their pain always brings relief from their suffering.
“Transformation does not start with someone else changing you; transformation is an inner self reworking of what you are now to what you will be.”
We often use this metaphor with our clients for the work we are doing together…
We are all born into our own river. This river is clean and clear. It is the perfect temperature and has the exact right current to move us through our development and into the life we were destined to live. Sounds lovely, right? However early in ALL of our lives, twigs get tossed into our rivers. These twigs do not belong in our river and yet here they are. Most people don’t realize they don’t belong and therefore ignore the twigs. Many more twigs always join the first. Eventually, these twigs begin to bind together and get lodged onto the side of the bank. As life moves along and more twigs come, a log jam forms. While some people's rivers are almost entirely jammed, most still have some current running through. They live perfectly functional lives. However, they also experience blockages that impact their life's path. These blockages look like anxiety and depression, relationship distress, health problems, vocational problems, etc. As you may have guessed…those twigs represent experiences and traumas over our lifespan that have negatively impacted our view of self, always bringing shame with them and impacting our ability to thrive. We help our clients identify those twigs and begin to unlodge them from the jam. As each twig is unlodged and sent down the river…more and more free-flowing water can pass through. Life begins to flow as it is supposed to.
It would be our pleasure to help you identify your twigs, learn how to unlodge them, and get you back into your life of ease and flow!
