IsalinLife is challenging! Life challenges can seem especially daunting when our 'default' coping strategies start to undermine our talents, efforts and relationships too.
As human beings, we tend to rely on familiar coping strategies that have served us in the past. However, without some adjustment, these familiar strategies tend to let us down, sometimes again and again, over time. Default thought and behavior patterns, which tend to be hidden from our immediate perception, can even unconsciously degrade our perception, confidence, creativity and ability to experience joy.
I believe that a collaborative and reparative experience in individual therapy can be very useful in transforming our stubborn default thought and behavior patterns into conscious, authentic and empowering new perspectives. Effective individual psychotherapy works in part by offering a special private sounding board-- beyond familiar family and social circles-- that can help us cultivate important insights about oursleves and t others too, how we may more effectively express ourselves and relate to others more authentically too.
At the start of sessions, we will collaborate to determine goals that feel relevant and important to you. In addition to choosing among various talk therapy approaches, along the way we may decide to include and practice a few body-oriented techniques (e.g. EMDR, hypnosis, tapping...) to help decrease feelings of anxiety while augmenting clarity, focus and wellbeing.