What is Psychotherapy?

Good therapy opens communication between your heart and your mind. It's not about the expert sitting across from you, it's about the friend within you.

Are you suffering from fear, isolation, low motivation, or stress? What is in the way of your vision of a good life? Are you living your words? Are you acting how you feel?

Neuroscience-based therapy addresses how you hold, carry, and experience your thoughts, emotions, and sensations in your body - your whole person. This naturally reveals many questions to which you will find the answers in the safety of the therapeutic relationship. You will learn the differences between observable experiences and those that cannot be seen but are part of the fabric of your experience. Survival in this day and age requires new operating systems that allow you to self-regulate when you feel overwhelmed, helpless, or traumatized.

The healing process naturally unties the blocks resulting from limiting beliefs that are at the core of emotional and relational conflicts.

Trauma is...

a very individual experience. It is not one event that causes trauma, rather it arises from a perception of danger or threat. Long-held limiting beliefs implicitly direct our inner experience and thinking. These old beliefs deceptively guide us to actions that influence our emotions experienced in the moment, but are not based in the present at all, and resurface again and again from the past when triggered.

Relationships are subtly but profoundly influenced by the stress and traumas of each partner. The first step to peace is for each person to understand what he or she is carrying. The second step is to recognize the other's wounds.

Resilience is...

the capacity to effectively and beneficially cope with perceived and real adversity. To respond to incoming, new, unexpected or unwanted events in a self-preserving manner, without depleting inner resources such as mental clarity, emotional regulation, or physiological functioning.

To be resilient, we need a reserve of resources. Neuroscience has shown that long-term emotional, physical, or mental stress can deplete our resources and make us less resilient.

Healing is...

finding a new normal.  What do you desire your new normal to be? Sometimes this involves finding multiple positive, familiar experiences. Sometimes is coming home to what you've always known to be true.  Ultimately, the journey back to wholeness changes the brain by creating a new reality in which you feel safe in the world.