Finding a good enough home inside the rootlessness of an ever evolving being.
Lately I have become aware of a theme among people who share their innermost experiences with me. Sensitive people who sometimes struggle with feeling disconnected from their homes. Either through becoming uprooted by circumstance or feeling disconnected due to...
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Starting to look at inter-generational trauma and how it sits in the body and the culture.
How do we work with historical loss, upheaval and trauma, when we may not know exactly what happened, what it was like (because we may not have been born yet) and what it might really mean in relation to...
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Uncertainty, doubt and riding the wave/s
“Things are horrible”. This is a persistent refrain, and as I am told by my elders, has kind of always been the way of things – with various dips and breaks throughout history. It is also true that right...
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The ups and downs of grieving.
When someone who was an integral part of a person becoming who they are, dies, so does a part of the griever. Death is the biggest wrench in the system and it wrenches your heart, mind and entire orientation...
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Identity and therapy.
When I first started working with people, I was focused on connecting with children and families and helping them get back on their feet and navigate systems of care which were often quite damaged. Later when I went to...
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Working with the gifts and challenges of “highly sensitive” people in therapy.
A lot of people who gravitate towards doing “deep” analytic work in psychotherapy, vs. strictly symptom management or reduction, are highly sensitive people. Why is that? Maybe they have a need to go deeper emotionally because they see and...
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A (slightly) more personal bit about me and my work doing psychotherapy during the global pandemic.
I was recently asked to share a bit about myself for a directory of therapists who work with COVID-19 first responders and their family members. Some of the questions and answers related more specifically to working as a psychotherapist...
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