To Our Clients
The experience of our external and inner world profoundly influences our overall psychological health and well-being. Therapy helps us explore this relationship, to cultivate a healthy & robust sense-of-self, to respond from a more balanced perspective in our day-to-day lives. The goals of psychotherapy are highly individualized and depend on the unique needs and circumstances of each person. A collaborative relationship between the therapist and the individual seeking therapy is essential in setting and working towards each goal.
Trauma Informed Therapy
Trauma is a sensory experience, regardless of the level of perceived intensity of the event, psychotherapy promotes resilience later in life. Areas where trauma informed therapy is beneficial:
Traumatic Events
Depression
Anxiety
Body Image & Eating Disorders
Stress Management
Burnout
Relationship Issues
The Window of Tolerance
Throughout the therapeutic process, clients are supported as they integrate their emotions and experiences, increasing their emotional regulation capabilities of the Autonomic Nervous System. This decreases dysregulation and creates increased resiliency.
“Safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives. The critical issue is reciprocity: being truly heard and seen by the people around us, feeling that we are held in someone else’s mind and heart. For our physiology to calm down, heal, and grow we need a visceral feeling of safety”
— Bessel van de Kolk
“Grounding is a skill that benefits a wide range of clients. It is an especially valuable tool for those struggling with hyperarousal, hypoarousal, or the biphasic alternation of the two.”
— Ogden & Fisher
“As we begin to re-expereince a visceral reconnection with the needs of our bodies, there is a brand new capacity to warmly love the self. We experience a new quality of authenticity in our caring, which redirects our attention to our health, our diets, our energy, our time management. This enhanced care for the self arises spontaneously and naturally, not as a response to a “should”. We are able to experience an immediate and intrinsic pleasure in self-care.”