About Holistic Family Therapy

You barely make it through the week…

… and dread having to face the pain that keeps shoving its way up when you least want it to, again and again and again.

The pain is barely trapped away, and you don’t know how long you’ll be able to manage it.

Feeling like you don’t know your partner anymore and can’t remember the last time you had some good quality time with them.

It doesn’t help that your child cries every night about going to school the next day.

It feels like you’re holding everything together; but if one more thing happens, you’ll crumble – and you don’t even know what would happen then…

You feel lonely and scared.

Understanding and acceptance through the pain…

Sometimes we trap our pain and lock it away just to manage it. But what you really want is to let it out and feel understood and accepted.

You don’t know how to talk to your partner. Especially you’re worried that you’re not having enough sex, and a little part of you wonders if maybe it has to do with that attractive coworker that you met at the party a couple months ago.

You just feel like something is off between the two of you, and you wish you could feel more like a team when you talk to the kids.

The wonders of this safe place…

To feel safe enough to bring your pain and fears, you have to know that you are bigger than the overwhelming thoughts and feelings that come up.

As you confront your pain and fears in this safe place, you’ll slowly become more and more capable of taking on your past trauma and relationships. Even if nothing feels as though it’s changed, you’ll feel stronger as you try again and again. In time, it feels as though you’re finally starting to catch up and get a fresh breath of air.

You are resilient… and you can do this!

This is a hero’s journey…

It’s walking one little step at a time along the path of holistic healing and health.

There can be fear and doubt along the way, but each step takes you closer to transformation – to being who you really are… thriving and loving life.

As you walk, you don’t necessarily know what’s true. What if I finally share that I’ve been avoiding my partner since the miscarriage, and it only makes us more distant? What if my partner doesn’t understand, and I’ll just feel even more alone?

And sometimes you don’t know what you want or need to move forward. What if our problems take up too much time when our other kids are struggling, too?

Being vulnerable with your own pain and problems and valuing it enough to give it voice and time to heal is how you can be the hero of your story.

The power of the “holistic approach”…

In my work with you, I approach each person and each challenge as a series of interconnected parts that create the whole. I call this approach “holistic.”

Humans are multidimensional beings. Your values and perceptions of the world influence how you naturally relate to the world around you.

There are so many different parts that make up who we are and our lives (spiritual, emotional, mental, psychological, physical, social, societal). All these parts are interconnected, and therapy needs to take into account this multi-dimensionality of the person in order to help the “whole” person.

The result? My clients foster a sense of wellness in all areas of their life (spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical) that goes beyond what initially brought them into therapy.