How long does therapy take?
Often our deepest insecurities, fears, and core beliefs were derived from the first 18 years of our lives.
Think: 365 days x 18 years of relational attitudes, beliefs and assumptions that were modeled to us by our caretakers and other experiences in our upbringing environment.
If you were raised in a household where your emotional needs were often met with disappointment, overtime you will likely develop a generalized expectation (core belief) that "others cannot meet my emotional needs, so what is the point of help seeking, talking about it, or working through issues with someone?"
In therapy, I utilize the therapy relationship to reshape these deeply ingrained relational attitudes. 12 months of treatment would be considered short-term. Many of my clients work with me for multiple years. It is through the aggregate process of therapy contact that enduring change occurs.
As I am making a commitment to you in your healing journey, 1x a week therapy cadence (excluding holidays and in advance notified time off) is the expectation given my therapy orientation. This frequency is necessary in order to reconstruct old relational attitudes stuck in the past, and to promote healthier ways of relating to oneself and others (attachment) and down to the neurological pathway level.
How long are sessions?
Both therapy and executive coaching sessions are 45 minutes.
Who do I work with?
The clients I tend to work with grew up walking on eggshells, or learned early on to go quiet and disappear. Their caretakers were often depressed, chronically anxious, stuck in survival mode, or emotionally immature: parents who were physically present but emotionally unavailable, unpredictable, or overwhelming.
Growing up in that kind of environment doesn't just shape how you think. It shapes who you become. To survive an emotionally unsafe home, children don't simply develop unhelpful beliefs about themselves and others. They internalize those experiences so deeply that they become reflexive, woven into personality, identity, and how they move through the world.
This is often referred to as relational or developmental trauma, or Complex PTSD (C-PTSD). It rarely looks like one defining event. It looks like a childhood of chronically unmet emotional needs, and an adulthood of overthinking, perfectionism, people pleasing, toxic shame and guilt, and feeling overly responsible for others. If any of this resonates, you're likely exactly who I work with.