Counseling, Integration Coaching and Consulting

Suffering is a symptom.

Some of what brings people to therapy is not illness but rather the honest weight of being alive — the search for meaning, the grief of unlived potential, the friction between who we are and who we were told to become.

This practice takes that seriously.

I believe that we live in a confused culture and that the net result of the confusion is a mistaken idea that we are somehow broken and ill.  I believe the current set of vocabulary and concepts surrounding mental health are unnecessarily awkward and disempowering.  Rather, I appreciate that all of us have experiences with sadness, fear, bad-habits and overwhelm from time to time, that none of these are illnesses, and that we all have the innate ability to overcome them.  Sometimes a reframed perspective is all that’s needed.

What I believe.