Spirituality Therapists in 12571

Many people struggle with finding balance in our rapidly changing world. My focus is on helping people make the changes they want to see in their lives, starting from the inside and working outward into relationships, work, and life as a whole. I work from a trauma-informed consciousness, with an interest in neuroscience, supported by awareness of the effects of toxic stress on the body, mind, and emotions. I work to help people develop a relationship with core self that supports finding balance amidst career discernments, relationship shifts, and changes in life direction.

My passion in life is to help individuals and couples quickly find solutions to even the most challenging issues, so that they can reconnect with a new sense of possibility and joy for what life can truly be. The short-term, solution-oriented approach focuses on the present and future rather than the past. In our work together you will quickly learn how to shift your perspective from one in which you may feel frustrated, stuck, scared or angry, to one in which you will find the courage, willingness, love, and wisdom you need in any situation to move forward.

When emotions stir within, causing anxiety, depression, or distress in relationships, life can feel overwhelming. I view these shifts as gifts, like an indicator light your higher Self is yearning for a personal growth spurt. These feelings can be an opportunity to free yourself from the experiences that hold you back from living your best life. My ideal client is ready to explore their internal world to make the changes needed to create a positive transformation. I am a body-based trauma-informed therapist with a master’s degree in dance/movement therapy. I use the creative process and visualization as a tool for exploration.

Entering into therapy, whether it be for yourself or your child, is a process in uncovering the self and true identity. Grief, loss, trauma, various life transitions and challenges can shake our sense of self. The creative process is intrinsically healing and offers a safe space to sort through various emotions, and reorganize your brain & thoughts. Children and teens need creative space and play outside of their structured days. Within my art studio/office, I offer ceramics, painting, collage, drawing, fiber arts, sculpture and art with recyclables.

Seeking help is an act of bravery, so kudos to you for coming to this site looking for it. It signifies strength and resilience. People say “life is hard” all the time, and they’re not wrong. The challenges in today’s post Covid and politically tumultuous world are, in some ways, more difficult than they’ve been in a long time. For the individual who has trauma activations, anxiety, grief, or lives an alternative lifestyle, even acts of daily living can be overwhelming. Obviously, we can only do so much to change adverse circumstances beyond our control; the events of a tumultuous past, and/or a challenging present. However...

We all have the same basic needs; to love, to be loved, and to feel that we have worth. When these needs go unfulfilled, we get anxious and depressed and our relationships suffer. I believe the purpose of therapy is to reduce those symptoms by addressing their root causes. Your expectations of love and yourself were formed by your prior relationships. Let's make sure that those expectations are healthy and realistic. Let's figure out how your past has influenced your present, for good and for bad, and find the tools to be your best and strongest self in the future.

I treat a vast variety of people with a wide array of issues. I stay fairly current in session, although the importance of our past cannot be underestimated. We coped and survived in a certain way as children. This is not to say these strategies are bad, they just are not useful anymore and new ones are to be explored to enhance the rest of your life. Some areas are relationships, dating, breakups, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, workaholic challenges. creativity, gay issues, and success.

Do you feel undeserving of your best life? Or carry a burden of shame from abuse as a child, and need help learning to love yourself? Therapy provides a healing path, and I will walk it with you. As kids we learn reading and math yet not how to handle troubling feelings of fear, sadness, anger, and shame. Psychotherapy teaches you how to love yourself. Relief comes as you drop harsh self-judgments that block moving from where you are now to where you want to be. You learn to discriminate between destructive self-criticism and positive self-correction.

I seek to bring the best of my learning to match up with who you are. I don’t treat a diagnosis, per se I address the underlying, not so obvious factors that lock a person into patterns of behavior & patterns of response that give rise to the symptoms we see in things like depression, social and relational struggling, anxiety and a general feeling of life as painful. Models- Attachment Theory, Polyvagal Theory, and Affective Neuroscience are my building blocks. AEDP & ISTDP speak to me in particularly in creating lasting change.