Relationally Focused Psychotherapy    Philadelphia Online DBT Program    Intensive Supports

   September 2024: Evening Openings on Tuesday
Same-Day Intakes Available As Needed

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What's going on for you right now? 
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Looking for a therapist means something is going on for you. Perhaps there is a crisis, an agony, or you find yourself wanting something different. Therapy works through human connection combined with deep listening and mutual understanding in the context of a very specific, carefully curated relationship, where your emotional needs are centered, and the therapist draws from their training and authenticity to join with you and help you be yourself and feel yourself in ways that feel good to you.

 

This means you don't have to face what's there alone. We can hold what is there together.  We can peek at tiny pieces, or peek in from the edges, moving as slowly or as quickly as needed for things to feel tolerable.  When we connect with what's there together--with how things really are for you right now--stuck things can shift.  This is the essence of the therapy process.  
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I practice in a relational frame, which means I am curious about how relationships from the past arrive in the present and that I believe connecting in 'good enough' ways in the therapy relationship can help you to hold the past with less constriction and can help you to live in the present more freely. 
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Practicing in a relational frame also means I believe that taking care of how things are between us--me and you--matters a lot, and helps the whole therapy process to thrive.  
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I'm also interested in the ways that the words and stories we were born into frame our lives and in how freely spoken language, in the context of safe and genuine relationships, can help us heal.       
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I believe that our ongoing perceptual experiences, idea clouds, and the ways we inhabit various aspects of our individual and social identities can be seen helpfully as unfinalizable narrative plot lines rooted in relationships, emotions, earth, and the bioluminescent suchnesses that are unique to our individual and collective resonance in time and space.  In other words, second chances for connection, resolution, and meeting the new are available in each moment, and we don't know what the future will bring, but being here now is the most important thing. 
 
Feel free to reach out if you think it may be helpful to chat about working together.