My Approach to Psychotherapy
I work from the here-and-now experience in the room with patients to understand enacted relational patterns and their historical origins. I believe that while all of us struggle with challenging, painful experiences, our response to suffering and the meanings we attach to it and to ourselves as a result, can contribute to challenging relational patterns. Compassion and self acceptance are essential in the process of relinquishing these problematic patterns and moving beyond them. True compassion, however, is elusive for most people and many are helped by achieving a richer appreciation of the origins of their patterns in the quest for greater empathy for themselves as human beings. This understanding facilitates the process of acceptance, greater consciousness and personal development. I see each person’s internal system as unique network of patterns, influenced by genetic predisposition, attachment history, trauma history as well as a multitude of experiences and generated meanings about these experiences. Many clients have found the Internal Family Systems approach to be truly transformational. Together we will work together to facilitate an intimate understanding of each part of your system, a deep appreciation of how it has served you over the course of time, and we will work together towards liberation of the the burdens these parts carry so that you can be experience much more freedom and joy in your life.