Who We Are

I remember a time in my life when I was processing my own work. I was reading every book recommended to me and playing Therapy Modality Hopscotch in the search for the perfect one. Maybe I needed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, possibly EMDR?

In the therapy work I do with clients, the first step is to organize your thoughts and identify the voices. Those voices can be your own. But most often, they are the residual influence of previously failed relationships, the critical voices of individuals who hurt us, and intimate family relationships who didn’t have our best interests at heart.

My desire in therapy is to increase awareness of those voices and to make sure that our critical thoughts are really our own and not the critical thoughts others felt they could give us without us ever having asked for those influences.

After my clients and I have organized their thoughts, we can then frame the question needing to be asked to heal the wounds at our center.

To put this thought in perspective, we have to know what we are targeting before choosing the right implements to help us heal.