Set Your Path
When life's challenges become overwhelming or persist without relief, our goals and dreams can feel increasingly out of reach. We may begin questioning our worth, doubting our abilities, and silently carrying emotional pain we've come to believe we must endure.
Going it alone is understandable. Messages from family, society, and our own experiences often teach us to manage life's struggles privately. But when familiar ways of coping no longer help us move toward a rich and meaningful life, seeking support can be an important investment in ourselves and our future.
You don't have to remain stuck in patterns that no longer serve you.
Together, we can explore the often-hidden factors influencing your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and choices—and discover new possibilities for moving forward.
I offer a safe, accepting, and collaborative environment where you can better understand yourself, reconnect with your strengths, interests, and values, and cultivate more fulfilling relationships. Drawing on mindfulness, acceptance, emotional intelligence, and perspective-taking, we'll work toward responding to life's challenges with greater awareness, flexibility, and purpose.
My integrative approach draws from evidence-based therapies, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), attachment science, and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples.
Our work is about more than overcoming symptoms. It's about developing the psychological flexibility, resilience, and self-understanding to build a life that feels meaningful, connected, and authentically yours.
Revitalize
Poetically translated to “golden joinery,” Kintsugi, or Kintsukuroi, is the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing broken pottery. Rather than rejoin ceramic pieces with a camouflaged adhesive, the Kintsugi technique employs a special tree sap lacquer dusted with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. Once completed, beautiful seams of gold glint in the conspicuous cracks of ceramic wares, giving a one-of-a-kind appearance to each “repaired” piece.
This unique method celebrates each artifact’s unique history by emphasizing its fractures and breaks instead of hiding or disguising them.
In fact, Kintsugi often makes the repaired piece even more beautiful than the original, revitalizing it with a new look and giving it a second life.
A quick note: we are not broken, but sometimes feel broken. Thank you to Jake who provided this rich metaphor to inform his work and to Mindful ACT.
From https://mymodernmet.com/kintsugi-kintsukuroi/