ABOUT PSYCHOTHERAPY

The word Psychotherapy comes from the Greek words psyche, meaning soul or animating spirit, and therapae to serve or take care of. Therefore, psychotherapy is the work of caring for the soul. When an individual seeks therapy it’s because their soul, their very core, is suffering. These emotional injuries take many forms such as relationship difficulties, trauma, depression, anxiety, crippling fear, eating disorders and other addictions, physical illness, loss and grief.

Therapy is both a practical and creative process and potentially, a deeply transformative one. It is the result of the therapist and patient forming a unique theraputic relationship and together, creating change and development.

Depth therapy is not quick or easy. It requires commitment of time and focus, and courage. We live in a world of promised quick fixes and instant gratification but deep and long lasting changes don’t happen over night. It is a process. Just as in nature patience is required. Winter sets the scene for Spring to arrive.

Therapy can provide insight that is hard to find from friends or family. The therapist provides a unique objectivity without personal agenda that supports and encourages self-reflection and facilitates change, new perspective and often previously unimagined choices.

Therapy is a safe, confidential, supportive and non-judgmental place. There is no thought, feeling, imagining or reality, dark or light, that cannot be spoken or shared.

I think of my task as a therapist as being a guide and protector for the individual on the unique journey to find their authentic selves.