AEDP Therapists in Lower Burrell, PA

Do you feel depressed or anxious? Are you suffering from a loss? Are you going through a divorce or a big transition in your life? Are you struggling with relationships? Are you feeling overwhelmed? Do you take care of everyone except yourself? I can help. Dealing with life's ever changing challenges can be stressful. By working together, I can help you regain control, find self fulfillment and happiness. We will work through the issues to learn healthy ways to cope, find control and create a sense of peace within yourself.

On the outside, you’re a success- but on the inside, you're secretly miserable. Your emotional reactions are unpredictable, extreme, or out of control. You feel helpless to change and you worry that you will feel this way for the rest of your life. You may have felt depressed, anxious, or both, for years - or have a history of trauma that still affects you.

Every life has its own obstacles. Finding a healthy way to move through or past these obstacles ultimately determines our happiness. I utilize a skills based approach to treatment, with my goal being to work with my clients to decrease their symptoms, restore balance and improve overall quality of life. Integrating complementary techniques, I offer an eclectic and highly personalized approach, tailored to each individual client's situation. With compassion, humor, and understanding, I work with each client to help them build on their strengths and attain the personal growth they are committed to accomplishing.

At Dynamic Growth Counseling LLC, our ideal clients include those who have tried multiple therapies without success, feeling disillusioned about the process, as well as first-timers to therapy seeking a lasting solution. They face issues like life transitions, relationship challenges, and mental health concerns such as anxiety, depression, and addiction. Our unique approach focuses on psychodynamic therapy, offering insights into the emotional underpinnings of their experiences—such as anger on the surface with underlying sadness, or sadness on the surface masking deeper anger.

We are psychotherapists who are dedicating time each week to supporting each other's scholarly activities and making quality long and short term psychotherapy more accessible for people paying out of pocket. Jackie, Matthew, Crista, Lou and I are the primary clinical staff and Cody, Jackie, Matthew and I facilitate reading groups for clinicians on scholarly topics related to psychotherapy and the humanities. Although different, we all approach therapy as an opportunity to face relational fears and acquire a voice for unspoken experiences. We attend to what is important in the big picture as well as what is pressing in the moment.

In life we are often faced with challenges such as depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, and loss. These issues can shake us to our core, cause us to question ourselves, and doubt our place within the world. Working through these issues in a safe and secure therapeutic relationship can provide sanctuary, comfort, and healing. I can help you work through these concerns, increase awareness, and build connections within your life to cope with challenges in healthy ways.

Outwardly it may seem that you have everything together. Yet inside, you're experiencing a persistent undercurrent of sadness, loneliness, or self-doubt. Despite how far you’ve come, you still don’t feel good enough. You don’t feel as close to others as you yearn to be. Your strong sense of what you “should be” feeling or doing makes it hard for you to connect with your actual emotions, desires, and needs, leaving you feeling stuck, numb, or confused. No matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to obtain the security or satisfaction you seek.

I love working with adults who want to get curious about the ways their past affects their present. Beginning in childhood, we learned to adapt to our circumstances and adjust our behaviors to maintain safety and security with others. Many of us found along the way that our emotions, needs, or wants were "too much" for the people we turned to for connection and protection. As a result we may have come to believe that we had to hide parts of ourselves in order to be loved or cared for. Over time, this hiding can lead to feelings of distress, anxiety, depression, shame, relationship challenges, and even chronic pain.