“When we finally get up the courage to confess what we believe is unthinkable, we find that many others have shared our experiences. That’s because we have so much in common with every other human being. All of us need others. All of us fall short of what we think we should be. We think our pain is unique until we begin to reveal ourselves in trusted company, and we see that we are simply human, no more, no less. We find our secrets are not so terrible after all, and in our freedom we are able to become genuinely intimate, perhaps for the first time, because we can be fully there, as we are, no apologies, no hiding. It is out of this authenticity that our lives take on power and focus."
Marilyn Sewell, Portland, Oregon
Does it seem like your usual coping skills are no longer working?
While this can seem distressing and frightening, it is actually good news. It means something inside of you is getting ready to shift, to try and live differently. When you are “off balance” something new can emerge.
It is at this point that therapy can help you find more creative and flexible responses to your life. Individual therapy provides you with a safe and accepting environment in which you can take the risk to push against former coping and survival strategies that now serve to keep you walled off and isolated. In individual therapy, you gain more access to your heart, learn to accept yourself more fully and to understand and develop a greater range of responses to the situations you encounter in every day living.
If you wish to develop more effective and successful tools for relating to yourself and important others, individual counseling is the right choice for you. A partial list of the issues I work with are:
Anxiety
Depression
Relationship Issues
Shame
Sexuality
Loss or Grief
Dating and New Relationship Concerns
Trauma
Parenting
Co-Narcissism: relational patterns developed as the result of growing up with a narcissistic parent.
While this can seem distressing and frightening, it is actually good news. It means something inside of you is getting ready to shift, to try and live differently. When you are “off balance” something new can emerge.
It is at this point that therapy can help you find more creative and flexible responses to your life. Individual therapy provides you with a safe and accepting environment in which you can take the risk to push against former coping and survival strategies that now serve to keep you walled off and isolated. In individual therapy, you gain more access to your heart, learn to accept yourself more fully and to understand and develop a greater range of responses to the situations you encounter in every day living.
If you wish to develop more effective and successful tools for relating to yourself and important others, individual counseling is the right choice for you. A partial list of the issues I work with are:
Anxiety
Depression
Relationship Issues
Shame
Sexuality
Loss or Grief
Dating and New Relationship Concerns
Trauma
Parenting
Co-Narcissism: relational patterns developed as the result of growing up with a narcissistic parent.