Along with its wonders, life will present all of us with difficult challenges, injuries, disappointments, disillusionment, losses, dangers, and other blows to our sense of self and/or the people we love. These life-experiences may be reflected emotionally in low self-esteem, sadness, heartbreak, shock, anxiety and other painful emotions, any of which may in turn become complicated by feelings of invalidity, shame, toxicity, or guilt. When feelings (perhaps especially painful feelings) become saturated in invalidity, shame, or guilt they are more likely to give rise to clinical depression, anxiety disorders (e.g., panic attacks), or other problems.

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In your psychotherapy with me, I will aim to explore with you and understand the life-difficulties you have faced, and currently face, in relationships with partners, family or other loved-ones, in your employment or professional setting, and/or any other region of your life-world.

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My focus will always be on your personal experience of these difficulties from your unique perspective on yourself, others, and the world, and the feelings your perspective evokes.

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Again, often one's perspective is shaped by pain-producing convictions about oneself, like "There's something wrong with me" or "Everything I touch turns to shit", and these convictions need to be brought out into the sun where we can see and challenge them together. Only then can the grip of such painful views be loosened, liberating you to see and feel genuine joy or sadness, peace or anxiety, free of insidious feelings of shame, guilt and the like.