In an increasingly stressful world, adulting can be a challenge. Significant milestones such as navigating intimate relationships, starting a family, and dealing with grief and loss force us to re-examine our priorities, make changes, and evolve towards a new normal. Most of us are also receiving numerous messages, suggestions, and advice from social media, peers, and well-intentioned family and friends. As a result, it makes sense that we sometimes feel overwhelmed, exhausted, ask whether we are doing it “right,” or even feel like we are failing.
Challenging times present us with opportunities to look inward with curiosity and learn more. The feelings we experience in our minds and bodies – stress, anxiety, fear, depression, tightness, inability to sit still, lethargy, and more – communicate a great deal of information; we just need to slow down and listen. Our feelings can guide us and enable us to ask harder questions and look for new ways to respond so that we can grow and change and heal.
I am here to work with you on a path towards increasing your self-awareness so that you can better respond to the challenges that life throws at you. I do this in collaboration with you by:
- providing a safe, non-judgmental space for you to express yourself
- following your lead about areas where you want to focus
- listening actively
- asking questions to lead you towards deeper insights
- teaching coping and mindfulness skills and tools
- inviting you to practice between sessions, and
- supporting you and encouraging you along the way.
We will also hopefully laugh a little. Life is hard, but it’s also funny.