We are hardwired to connect. I understand the importance of relationship to all humans. We are hardwired to connect through a relationship where you can experience acceptance, safety, and fulfillment. I also see that your unresolved wounds have occurred in relationships. The therapeutic alliance provides the opportunity to create a new chance where you can get in tune with what has been blocking you and relax into who you are meant to be.
I see you. I see your struggles in the context of surviving difficult circumstances, managing challenging life events, and battling the traumas you have encountered. Rather than using a psychiatric diagnosis to define you, I acknowledge the disturbance and chaos that have surrounded you. I empathize on your strengths, inner resources, and the possibilities to transform.
Real changes occur through an awareness of experience that only comes alive in the present moment. I often use expressive tools and activities- such as reenactment in couple therapies, memory processing in individual sessions, or guided imagery to re-experience emotions, body movement and sensations from the past. Part of this embodied experience is helping you to be centered and grounded so that you can integrate your experiences that may have been ignored previously.