"First we must ask ourselves:
What is our relationship to reality?
What is our understanding of life?
We must look at life as it is, and come into
intimate contact with life."
-Sayadaw U Tejaniya
What is our relationship to reality?
What is our understanding of life?
We must look at life as it is, and come into
intimate contact with life."
-Sayadaw U Tejaniya
my approach
Present Moment Exploration. In Relationship.
My approach to therapy is depth-oriented and experiential. I collaborate with clients to develop awareness and understanding of the unconscious ideas and emotions that are driving problematic behaviors and stuck patterns. Although through solitary approaches like journaling, self-inquiry, and meditation we can illuminate some of these patterns on our own, Object Relations Theory suggests that other aspects of our unconscious feelings and beliefs require us to be in relationship with another to be seen clearly. Put simply, we need to be understood in order to understand ourselves.
The therapeutic relationship is the foundation of this exploration. It is the ground from which we can begin to explore and understand unconscious mental and emotional patterns that may be a source of pain in our lives. Ideally, the relationship between therapist and client is a kind of laboratory where we can examine these patterns in real time, and begin to experience and cultivate new ways of being that can transform our relationships as well as our experience of self.
Depending on each individual's needs, sessions can occur anywhere from one to five times weekly. In each session, clients are invited to speak, without censoring themselves, about whatever spontaneously comes to mind. This approach is intended to allow our unconscious experience to surface in order to be explored and understood more fully. It is this bringing the unconscious into shared awareness that can result in the alleviation of symptoms, as well as an increase in creativity, spontaneity, and integration in one's life.
My approach to therapy is depth-oriented and experiential. I collaborate with clients to develop awareness and understanding of the unconscious ideas and emotions that are driving problematic behaviors and stuck patterns. Although through solitary approaches like journaling, self-inquiry, and meditation we can illuminate some of these patterns on our own, Object Relations Theory suggests that other aspects of our unconscious feelings and beliefs require us to be in relationship with another to be seen clearly. Put simply, we need to be understood in order to understand ourselves.
The therapeutic relationship is the foundation of this exploration. It is the ground from which we can begin to explore and understand unconscious mental and emotional patterns that may be a source of pain in our lives. Ideally, the relationship between therapist and client is a kind of laboratory where we can examine these patterns in real time, and begin to experience and cultivate new ways of being that can transform our relationships as well as our experience of self.
Depending on each individual's needs, sessions can occur anywhere from one to five times weekly. In each session, clients are invited to speak, without censoring themselves, about whatever spontaneously comes to mind. This approach is intended to allow our unconscious experience to surface in order to be explored and understood more fully. It is this bringing the unconscious into shared awareness that can result in the alleviation of symptoms, as well as an increase in creativity, spontaneity, and integration in one's life.