Description
Relational psychotherapy can be an effective tool when grappling with: anxiety, care taking/giving tendencies, narcissistic and neglectful parenting, attachment, self-sufficiency, hypervigilance, isolation, authenticity, masculinity, meaninglessness, depression, shame, complex emotional and intergenerational trauma, identity, and existential angst. My practice is informed by an attachment, trauma, polyvagal, and neurobiological perspective and grounded in mindfulness and empathy. Additionally, my approach considers the wider social, political and economic context of your relational world.
With empathy and engaged listening, we will explore what happens within your subjective experience: what may “trigger” the need to self protect and build walls, react, anger, struggle, feel shame, and maybe, withdraw from relationships - and these feelings can arise despite how a part of you, a vulnerable part, that is hurting, yearns for deeper connection and to be fully seen and understood by those around you.
We will also spend time exploring and understanding your primary attachment relationships and how they provided a foundation, essentially a blueprint, from which to make sense and meaning of who you are in mind and body - not to only dwell in the early years, but to understand how the past informs and impacts what is happening now in your life.
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