Why am I successful at work but miserable at home?
Why can't I relax?
Why do I feel like I'm always "on"?
Why do I never feel finished?
Why does achievement never feel satisfying?
So much of our well-being and mood depends on our relationship to ourself, others and the past.
The messages we receive as children shape how we view ourself in the present
One way we can adapt to certain messages is to become ‘perfect’ and ‘productive’
This state requires constant activation of the flight/fight nervous system
Constant hypervigiliance makes it difficult to connect with ourselves and others
Success becomes a way to flee or mediate pain
Emotional avoidance and numbing become habitual. The way we learned to protect ourselves as children doesn’t work as adults
Areas of Practice
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Emphasizes examining how thoughts and emotions interact with behavior to promote wellness.
Emotion Focused Therapy
Encourages making contact with difficult feelings like anger, fear and guilt in order to diminish their frequency and intensity.
Mindfulness Training
Uses meditation as a coping strategy to reduce anxiety and foster self-compassion.
Cognitive Processing Therapy
An evidence-based therapy for treating PTSD that examines how thinking perpetuates unhelpful trauma responses.
Exposure and Response Prevention
Helps you face your fear gradually and under controlled conditions to treat OCD.
Hypnotherapy
A drug-free relaxation technique that is most effective for treating chronic pain, stress, and anxiety.