We’ll examine the core assumptions you’ve been making about yourself, your strengths and limitations, your body and mind, your relationships, the people around you, the world and your place in it, and so on. You’ll be encouraged to question where these beliefs came from and what systemic, familial, or cultural influences contributed to your worldview.

We’ll identify concrete steps and life tools to help you right now. Maybe it would be beneficial to get more sleep, practice more mindfulness, take a break from certain relationships, spend less time on social media, or commit to attainable nutrition and fitness goals, perhaps as simple as drinking more water and getting outside for a quiet twenty-minute walk each day.

We live in a narrative-driven world and are constantly creating meaning and interpreting reality through filters we create based on our beliefs. But now that we’ve started to identify and question those beliefs, we can start to question the stories you’re telling yourself on a deep level. We'll see what stories can be thrown out or edited so you can start to more intentionally author your life.

A big part of therapy is learning new ways to navigate difficult emotions. It’s likely some feelings are easier for you to process than others, but you’ll discover that narratives around specific emotions might have served you in some way, made you feel safe, or shielded you from pain. However, such narratives are limiting, and to ‘feel better’ you’ll first get ‘better at feeling’.

The therapeutic process is not for the faint of heart and you’ll likely have an inner critic that doesn’t believe you can do this. We’ll work to identify the way this inner voice is influencing your beliefs and stories. And ultimately, to navigate all the parts of you screaming at you to stick with the status quo, we’ll work with interventions and methodology, both new and ancient, that increase your capacity for more grace and kindness.

To keep moving onward, and upward, it helps to develop a greater acceptance around our various attachments and limitations, the challenges of life, the mistakes we've made, past traumas and other experiences, and even the ways in which our own beliefs and stories have created suffering. Together, we’ll work on ways you can better observe your inner experience, creating more tolerance and resilience.

People often feel most challenged during life transitions, whether the change is rooted in relationships, career, health, or other shifts. Every day we get older, the world evolving around us, and we’ll explore the ways you wish to grow. Who do you want to become? What are your core values and how do you want to give your life meaning? By exploring these questions, you can better identify and work toward self-created goals.

If we think of the therapeutic journey as like climbing a mountain, part of the reward is that, in the end, you get to feel a sense of accomplishment on the summit, and yet you’re excited that the work is not over: the ‘descent’ awaits. In our favor is momentum, because now you’ve identified your life’s purpose, a sense of deep meaning acts like a gravitational pull, orienting you and clarifying each decision you’ll make on the journey ahead.