My approach to counseling is holistic, incorporating the mind, body, emotions and energy system with the goal of helping you to live the most satisfying and rewarding life possible. While classical approaches to psychology often focus on pathology (disorders) and diagnosis (how to treat the disorder), I don't view most mental/emotional struggles as disorders that need diagnosis, but as repressed or neglected aspects of your genuine and vital self. My work is focused on helping you to be fully human - to live authentically and from the heart.
Most of us learned when we were young to repress or keep certain parts of ourselves hidden for fear that those aspects were not loveable or valuable. As we got older, that self-repression became an unconscious habit, with the repressed parts of us simply filed away in our psyche as "bad" or "not to be expressed." While it may have served us (or even saved us) to repress our self-expression at the time, it takes tremendous energy to hold back who we really are. Over time, this continual holding of feelings can make us feel anxious, lethargic, stressed, numb, confused, passion-less or downright hopeless about life. My aim in our counseling relationship is to help you get in touch with yourself, what you are really wanting from your life, what feels lacking, and then to assist you in an experiential and practical course of therapy that creates real results in your daily life.
Supporting a strong and compassionate relationship with the self is central to my work. I believe and operate from the framework that one's relationship with life and others are reflections of the relationship with the self, and that a healthy self-relationship is the key to a deeply fulfilling life. I consider awareness to be the essential ingredient in creating change and one of my primary endeavors is always to increase your self-knowledge and awareness, through conscious attendance to your body, emotions, thoughts and energy. I believe that practices of self-awareness and genuine self-expression lead a person to have deeper contact with their authentic self , creating more choice, fulfillment and empowerment in their lives.
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