“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
Blog #3 May 4th, 2024
A common clinical issue I often see in my practice are clients who grew up with emotionally invalidating parents. Individuals who grew up in such environments as adults often exhibit behaviors of indecision, procrastination, and prioritization of other people’s needs before their own. Conversely, some adults who grew up in such environments, can also exhibit demanding and entitlement attitudes, as an “over corrective” form of coping since they learned that this was only way they could protect their sense of agency by “out aggressing” their parents’ invaliding or critical demands while growing up.
As children who grew up invalidating environments, often they were made to feel guilty or made to feel like they are burden, whenever they expressed their emotional needs. As adults they have a difficult time trusting their intuition because their emotions were often gaslighted. So their sense of self agency is underdeveloped.
Through therapy, I work to help my clients understand all emotional aspects of themselves in a safe environment. It is through this consistent process of self understanding, prioritization of your emotional needs, and grieving, that one can gradually begin to rebuilt and relate to themselves in healthier way.
Blog#2 February 24th, 2024
Perspectives of why you should not do therapy with companies like Betterhelp, as its business framework prioritizes shareholder profits over therapy ethics and the therapist and patient relationship.
https://www.amha-or.com/the-toxic-impact-of-venture-capital-on-psychotherapy
Blog #1 August 27th, 2023
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