"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." -Rilke  

Sometimes what brings you to therapy is not a crisis and you just want to learn more about yourself... about the way you approach relationships, your life, and your emotional health. Therapy is a space to increase your emotional awareness and develop greater insight into what makes you tick and what pushes your buttons. It is a space to learn about your “attachment style,” which is how you relate and attach to others, often based on your early childhood relationships. It offers an opportunity for you to have a new interpersonal experience and to experiment with healing attachment ruptures or pain that has occurred outside of the therapy room. But also to practice repairing and healing the therapy relationship if you ever feel I’ve missed or misunderstood you. It is a space to learn about the patterns you find yourself in day in and day out. And to maybe try something a little different. It is a chance for you to use the therapeutic relationship to get interpersonal feedback you might not be able to get in your regular life. And it is a chance to explore vulnerabilities and fears that you want to talk about but aren't quite sure how. The therapy relationship is a powerful tool for change. 

I work to create a nurturing, warm space for you to grow some weeks and just learn during other weeks. I realize that it takes strength, vulnerability, courage and energy for you to introspect and get to know yourself better. And, I want to come alongside you in that process. Regardless what walk of life you may be coming from, I hope to create a safe base for you to take a deeper look into your own inner world and your important relationships. You don't have to go it alone.