Intentional therapy that clarifies, guides, and transforms by focusing on

DEEP LISTENING

To be witnessed is to be known and to know oneself. Compassionate full-bodied listening is rare and yet, when you are given the space to be clearly, truly, deeply heard you can fully process your feelings and experiences and are able to access your core self and internal knowing.

THE HERE & NOW

We look at the past to understand patterns and context and we work with the present to reflect on how your current life is impacted. We work to create real life changes here and now. We can work to align the life we have with the life we want.

TOWARD LIVING BETTER

Let’s not wait until we arrive at our best to be okay with ourselves.

If your goal is to #LiveYourBestLife, you may be allowing over-achieving perfectionistic standards to keep you in the way of better living. Instead, we focus on becoming better.

SELF-COMPASSION & ACCEPTANCE

Unconditional acceptance through self-compassion, mindfulness, and non-judgment is at the root of all growth.

Because we often focus on what we lack, our energy becomes stuck on what we are not. This often blocks progress and causes resistance to change. When we start from a place of abundance, of self love and acceptance for who we are, we can then start to make changes.

FEELING ALIVE

We often ask the question What makes you happy?

when maybe the better question is What makes you feel alive?

We change our focus from that which brings us temporary happiness to that which brings us sustained happiness/aliveness. We do this by first asking ourselves these three questions:

  • What makes me feel alive when I THINK about doing it?

  • What makes me feel alive when I actually DO it?

  • What makes me feel alive AFTER I do it?

These choices lead to lasting feelings of well-being, connection, and flow.

SHORT BURSTS OF HELP

Ideally, we meet for 6 to 8 total sessions. We develop goals. We commit to the homework.

Intensive short-term therapy has been proven to create lasting results, real change, and life improvement. When we enter into therapy with a starting and ending point, we can enter fully into the experience with full energy, no holding back. We are often able to give our entire self to the work because there is an end point.

  • We all have heard that the pre-frontal cortex is not fully developed until at least age 25. This lack of development can lead to impulsivity and lack of ability to discern action’s consequences.

    In this day and age, it is rare to encounter a young person whom has not wrestled with anxiety and/or depression.

    Here’s how we help:

    We look at the whole person and work to develop healthy strategies to deal with overwhelm, shame, doubt, anxiety, depression, etc.

    We work on goal-setting in all areas of life: social, emotional, mental, and physical. It helps to figure out strengths and abilities along with personality style through a myriad of assessments and questions.

    We complete vocational and career exploration evaluations and inner-drive and intelligence assessments.

    The information we gather works as framework to inform goal creation and steps toward achievement.

    We work to determine steps toward independence and self-responsibility.

    We focus on small or big changes that can be made toward a fulfilling future.

  • We all go through many life transitions such as marriage, divorce, career change, having children, empty-nesting, caring for and/or death of an aging parent or loved one, and significant milestone birthdays. Oftentimes, we have “walking depression” or wear anxiety on our shoulders daily.

    These life events cause us to pause and re-evaluate life. We often need to process and share our stories in order to move through the current state to a new understanding.

    I work with those who are in the middle of it all! Career, child-raising or empty nesting, aging parents, financial decisions, maintaining a household, maintaining relationships with partner, friends, children, parents…

    There is life as we know it and life as we want it. Are these out of sync for you?

    Being a high achiever typically comes with the resilience and determination to do all the things, sometimes to the detriment of self. How did we get sucked into the mentality that having it all means doing it all and how can we get out of it?

OUR CLIENTS

“What is it you plan to do with your one wild & precious life?”

— Mary Oliver