Therapist Seeking Their Own Therapy

Personal therapy for therapists, social workers, psychologists, and other mental health professionals.

You may be successful, capable, deeply attuned to other people, and still feel disconnected from yourself in ways that are difficult to explain. Sometimes what brings therapists into therapy isn't simply stress or burnout, but a sense that something in your own life has gotten harder to hear.

Therapists live inside other people's inner worlds all day long. Somewhere in there, yours can slip out of view. The dream you didn't have time to sit with. The feeling you've been explaining instead of feeling. The part of yourself you've been putting off until you have more time.

I tend to be interested in the parts of our lives that don't fit neatly into a case conceptualization. Therapy can be a place to slow down, get curious, and notice what's happening beneath the version of yourself that is always taking care of things.

My approach is rooted in depth psychotherapy, drawing from both psychodynamic and Jungian traditions.  You don't need to be a Jungian, or even particularly interested in theory, to benefit from this kind of work. You just need some curiosity about what's happening beneath the surface.   

Want to understand how Jungian therapy connects with psychodynamic and psychoanalytic traditions?  Read more.

You spend a lot of time being the person who knows what to do. Therapy is one place where you don't have to. 

Sometimes it's obvious what you need. Sometimes it isn't.

Therapy is a place to focus on you: your relationships, patterns, emotions, history, identity, and whatever else you've been carrying around.

Supervision focuses more on your work: clinical judgment, countertransference, professional development, and the questions that come up in the room with clients.

If you're trying to decide which would be more helpful right now, we can talk about it.  Learn more about Supervision or reach out and we can sort it out together. 

• Understanding the creative adaptations that helped you survive, belong, and become the person you are today
• Noticing patterns of people-pleasing, over-functioning, or self-abandonment
• Making room for parts of yourself that have been pushed aside
• Exploring dreams, symbolism, and the unconscious
• Looking at what happens in your relationships, including the relationship between us

You don't need to arrive with clarity or solutions. Bring what feels uncertain, emotionally charged, or difficult to name. We can explore countertransference without judgment, get curious about what's happening beneath the surface, and reconnect with the deeper purpose beneath and beyond your practice.