Services
Depression Treatment
You don’t have to do this alone. Asking for help and developing compassion for yourself is possible. In fact, it’s the key to recovering from depression and healing your emotional pain.
Anxiety Treatment
Learn to uproot anxiety at its source by holding the anxious parts of yourself tenderly from your inner observer. Developing this inner observing is a simple technique that is difficult to practice. Despite the challenge, this approach relieves anxiety long term.
Addiction Counseling
Addiction is a central human experience…an adaptive response to being cut off from the flow of life within you. Restoring that connection to yourself, sharing it with others, and finding community (finding your tribe) frees you from addiction.
Grief Counseling
There are four tasks to grieving (from William Worden’s work). The first is to accept the reality of the loss. Second, is to slowly process the pain of the loss. Third you adjust your life to not having the loved one in it. And the final task is: to re-open your heart to the adventure of life while at the same time maintaining the deep and enduring connection to the one you love…to the one you lost.
Couples Counseling
Some of the core needs for intimate relationships are for security, emotional support, raising a family, for safety, sex, happiness and for companionship. But there is a deeper need…more important than all of those. That is intimate relationships are meant to serve the need for growth and personal transformation. And to grow one must face inner pain, unresolved negativity and insecurities. In fact, many people give up on romantic relationships…because it’s easier to hide, numb, and distract ourselves from pain when we’re not in a relationship. And yet we all long for and need loving relationships.
When two people enter a relationship sharing the perspective that growth and personal transformation are their deepest needs, there is real hope that the relationship will survive and eventually flourish despite challenges and adversity. Having a guide in the form of a couples therapist can be a great help.
End of Life Counseling
For those facing difficult decisions about terminal illness, counseling can help you clarify your needs, face your fear, and relax into the reality of your situation. Paradoxically facing death enlives you. Great meaning and blessings can come at this time.
Trauma Informed Therapy
Tremendous amounts of research and interventions are being developed to help people heal from trauma. For the first time in human history, we are able to understand trauma at its neurological root and offer interventions to heal the old patterns that were put in place to help survive the trauma.
Assertiveness Training
Learning healthy self assertion involves owning and integrating anger. Anger is a core emotion giving information about your needs. In other words, anger comes out when your need for a clear boundary is being violated or when your need for respect is not being met. Anger says, “Hey, something ain’t right. You’ve got to stand up for yourself, here.”
Learning to tolerate, accept, and listen to your anger leads to healthy self assertion.
Anger Management
Some people have anger that is pent-up, out of control, or simmering beneath the surface. Uncovering pent-up anger at its source and learning to work with it safely is the goal. When you’re able to sense the disturbed energy beneath the anger and when you can relax with that disturbed energy, the anger will completely release. You will finally be able to clear long held grievances, hidden resentments and the sense of yourself as a victim.
Working Together
To bring peace and ease to your life