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Impact of Therapy

Knowing our thoughts and behavior is a path to more satisfaction and connection.  With self-knowledge, evidence from our own experience, we can understand and even predict people’s motivations as well as our own.  This affects our life choices – from finding the right romantic partner or socializing to working with a team or interacting with a boss.

Good therapy develops our capacity for awareness, expression, presence and internal resources, so that when life or relationship is a struggle, we have knowledge and resilience to handle it.  We learn to accept and work with our mind’s interference so that we can thrive and live life fully engaged.  We are better able to deepen relationships and deal with conflict and confusion that might get in the way of them.

Therapy is a class on you.

You are the subject and the student, and I collaborate with patients to figure out how to guide them in their personal-growth study.  Much of what you need to learn is already present in your internal experience and interpersonal relationships. This evidence can be integrated with a curious, intentional and scientific approach. 

Therapy Helps You Learn To:

  • feel enlivened by insight & understanding

  • feel more comfortable and confident “saying your piece” and expressing your ideas

  • get relief from pain and confusion, but more than that, find new and different ways of approaching life and relationships that lead to more effective, bold and spontaneous choices

  • become adept at inner sensing– tracking your sensation, emotion and motivation

  • practice finding the right words to describe your subjective experience, so that you are more likely to be thoroughly understood by important people in your life

  • learn to live intentionally, with vision for your present and future

  • expand your perception of human behavior — interpreting, predicting and experiencing compassion for yourself and others

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a method that involves working with emotionally charged experiences to lessen their impact on our current lives.

EMDR addresses specific memories, such that the memory is retained but the previously associated intense or overwhelming emotion is gone or substantially decreased. Examples of treatment targets are acute event or chronic relational traumas, abuse, family dysfunction, or conditions like PTSD.

EMDR can be short-term therapy, a part of long-term depth therapy, or complementing your existing therapy (you don’t need to end your current therapy to do EMDR therapy with another therapist).

Read more about EMDR here: https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr