We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are
-Anais Nin
Counseling has many names for something that has one essential goal- to give you the tools you need to feel okay in your skin for the time you get to be on the planet. Psychotherapy helps you identify unhealthy and unhelpful patterns of thinking while also deepening your sense of compassion, clarity, and general wellbeing. Our journey together may include somatic (body based) approaches that will help you access different parts of yourself, mindfulness activities and practice designed to help you strengthen and ground your core identity, and direct inquiry where we may dialogue to bring compassion and understanding to your patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving so they are more likely to shift.
Counselors, Therapists, Psychotherapists
Counselors, therapists or psychotherapists are clinically trained at the post-graduate level in Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, or Mental Health Counseling. Our counselors are more focused on mental health than mental illness. There are hundreds of mental illness diagnoses voted on by psychiatrists and drug companies. Our therapists want to help you radically accept reality regardless of what identity, label or category has been put on your by yourself or others. Counselors in training are working towards honing the craft they were (hopefully) called to do under the guidance of their clinical supervisors, akin to residency or an apprenticeship.
Once you’ve met with your therapist for your initial intake, you’ll next schedule an individual counseling & therapy follow up session. We generally meet 55 minutes a week until you are showing progress from week to week.