Individual Therapy
Mental health therapy is about you. Your life. Your Self. Mental health philosophy concerns the solution that is within you.
As you battle your mental issue, it often seems that you are your mental issues. The solution to that strange situation is not to fight it. And, you don't have to do this alone.
I can help you contact your innate intelligence that can move you on your way. This process, Your process, is the noticing, contacting, and trusting your Self.
You are more than your mind.
I am warm-hearted and empathetic of your struggles. I want to know what it is like for you. I tend to be transparent in my approach.
We work together with you to help you through your specific challenges. I lean into your experience over a diagnosis, your knowledge over someone’s opinion, and your health over an imposition of disease. I see that the problem you are facing is the issue, and not so much what name we call it.
In other words, mental health philosophy is the approach for mental health therapy where we work on what is actually appening for you.
Science is only partially able to measure and qualify mental issue and mental disorder. It is a startlingly imprecise effort; it is more a collaborative effort than a science. This is why we have counselors, because thinking - the activity of your mind -uses science, listens to science, but is not entirely bound by its dictates.
For its part, science is very helpful, useful, and gives us wonderful things, but often enough, particularly if you have been struggling for a long time, you might be beginning to realize how much science has failed you. In a very real and significant sense your issue is not is often less about what might be 'actually' happening in your brain as it is about what you think about the situation. You are smart, and you have the power to overcome and figure out a solution for your issues.
If you are the sort that likes to know what you are getting into, here is beginning.
There are seven commonly identified aspects of mental health and wellness. These are connected by what you think and feel; we call this knowledge.
The roots of the Mental Health and Wellness Tree symbolize how our thoughts and thinking are deeply rooted in the existence of mental health and wellness. The tree forms a comprehensive representation of the multifaceted nature of human existence. This does not mean that cognition is foundational to wellness, but rather that there can be no mental health without a foundation in knowing.
Sometimes we are taught that mental health is about balance. While this is helpful, your mental issue is not entirely an issue of balancing dimensions of wellness but is more often a problem of your understanding of things, how you know it, what balance means to you. The relationship between knowledge and wellness is illustrated in the Tree. Out of the understanding of things comes the balance of wellness that is involved with mental health. In this sense, balance in your life is how you make sense of it for how you want to be.
