You look like you have it all together, but inside it's a different story.
Life feels heavy. You wake up feeling weighted down, drained, never really rested. You’re overwhelmed, unable to focus, in a fog.
People see you as strong and capable, the one who keeps everything together, who never drops the ball.
You're high-functioning, but not happy.
Inside you don’t feel great emotionally, in your relationships, or in how you feel about yourself. You wonder is this anxiety, depression, burnout, midlife crisis or what?
But the pressure to keep doing it all and to keep up appearances, never stops.
Sometimes you try to think about what you could take off your plate, but you can’t find an answer - you could switch to a different job with less responsibility (but that could mean a demotion and a pay decrease, which you would hate). If you're a parent or caregiver - you are not going to step away from that.
It’s like you’re drowning under the weight of all the responsibilities and expectations.
And you've been stuck like this for so long that it’s hard to remember the last time you actually felt good. In the past you were able to work through challenges on your own or talk to friends and family. Now you don’t want to tell anyone, you’ll just worry them and you're sort of embarrassed to tell the truth. Strong people don’t feel this way, and shouldn’t you just be grateful for all that you have?
Instead, you stay isolated and alone, trapped in a corner you can’t get out of by yourself. It's getting harder to pretend everything’s fine. And that's scary. A couple of people have noticed and suggested you get some help.
The Gift of Therapy
What if you got yourself support and guidance through therapy to feel better and more comfortable in your skin? What if you committed to working in therapy sessions to learn tools and strategies to become more self-aware, and to react differently to events and stressors in your daily life? You could...
- Find relief and release in being able to say all the things and have someone not only who listens but also knows what to do and how to help.
- Feel more hopeful knowing you have somewhere to talk about and process hard things, without having to downplay it to protect others’ feelings.
- Get out of the fog you’ve been in and identify the important messages underneath all these feelings.
- Have a place where you don’t need to worry about being judged and could build courage to face scary things.
- Make sense of the jumble in your head, and learn new, better ways to talk to and be in relationship with yourself.
- Get perspective, see your issues and feel more agency to chip away at them.
- Understand more about trauma, anxiety and depression may have impacted your life – and learn that is just part of you, not who you are.
- Start shifting thoughts and feelings and keep them fluid and moving – not stuck and frozen/calcified inside.
- Gain confidence in your own ability to manage life, see what’s yours and let go of what’s not working.
Our Work Together
You’ll have a consistent, calm and compassionate space to take a breath and explore what’s going on. I integrate multiple approaches and perspectives best suited to help each client, including:
Insight-Oriented Therapy (Psychodynamic Therapy) and Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Recognizing that your inner world is complex; being curious about your life history and yourself (vs. judgmental) can bring a path to healing
CBT – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Identifying and changing unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior
Attachment-based Therapy
Exploring how early relationships shape current emotions, behavior, healthy connections
MCBT (Mindfulness-Based CBT)
Observing and accepting your thoughts, rather than believing they are facts or need to be “fixed.”
Therapy with a Coaching Edge
Adding the action orientation of a coaching perspective to the wisdom and goals of therapy.