“The wound is where the light enters you.”
— Rumi
Why Now?
Sometimes it takes a raging crisis to drag a person into treatment. Other times it may not be clear what’s wrong, but an empathic little nudge helps find words to name the unspeakable, to confront the ineffable.
Perhaps you’ve secretly always wanted to explore your own inner life but felt too embarrassed to try therapy because of how talking about feelings has been shunned by society or family—even though admitting to vulnerability is a profound strength and fosters human connection.
Go Ahead, Take Up Space
There is nothing broken about human suffering in whatever form it manifests—depression, anxiety, a relationship that once felt so attuned which now seems bankrupt—we just have to tap into whatever else it is that you also need. Presenting issues—or symptoms—are the body’s way of warning that something psychologically unresolved needs your attention.
To Need Is To Be Human
Naming our psyche’s dilemma is the heart of the work. Routinely slowing down and turning inward will awaken a sense of agency, resilience, and propensity toward self awareness that is innate and available to each and every person.
Just Be
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy provides a private space to reflect and invites the presence of mind necessary to access and name pain without judgment; a place where everything that comes to mind has meaning, a place to know oneself. In this place dreams will never be boring and swearing will always be encouraged.
Curiosity Is Everything
There are no easy answers or quick fix prescriptive formulas to feeling your best. Talking out problems and getting comfortable addressing the unknown is the organic therapeutic stance from which we will set off on our healing journey. Together, we will find out what you need and how you might get there.
While most forms of licensed therapy are effective and legitimately worthwhile, efficacy studies have shown that psychoanalysis leads to lasting change, as compared short term behavioral models, which may require consistent tuneups (TADS, 2012).
From my point of view, psychoanalysis is wholly transformative. The insights to be found and perspective to be gained by investing in this process will continue to evolve with you for the rest of your life.
