Compassionate Therapy
You’re burnt out, exhausted, and treading water. You keep putting on the tough facade, but you’re slowly drowning while everyone around you see’s this ‘high functioning’ person. You speak to yourself with judgment, critic, and shame. You’re having sleepless nights and your nerves are fried. You don’t know how much more of this you can take.
When do you decide it’s become too much? When will you have suffered enough to earn that calm, quiet space that you so desperately long for? When will you be allowed to treat yourself with kindness?
Maybe it’s time to decide that for yourself. It doesn’t have to be this hard.
If you’re experiencing burnout, shame, frustration, resentment, or irritability our approach to therapy can help you find more clarity, ease, compassion, and relief.
The Process
Humanistic theories aim to assist clients in accessing and understanding their feelings, gaining a sense of meaning in life, and reaching self-actualization.
These approaches are holistic in nature and believe that people are inherently good and whole. They encourage creativity, free will, human potential, self-exploration, following your intuition, and spiritual aspiration (whatever this means to you).
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You are the expert of your own experiences and that the therapeutic relationship is the most necessary agent of change. I bring empathy, compassion, and non-judgment to each client.
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Emotions are intricately tied to the human experience. I use a lot of feeling and emotion words and reflections when we work. I find going into emotions brings a deeper process and fuller understanding.
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Free will, self-determination, and the search for meaning are at the core of the human experience. Our life’s meaning consistently shifts, depending on where we are on our path - so we learn to shift with it.
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As humans, we are intricately tied to story. Through everything we do and believe, we build our reality through narrative. With this theory, we take our current narratives, learn how they help or hinder us, and then adapt them to find balance.