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Dealing with emotional difficulties by ourselves, without the ability to feel understood and effectively soothed by close others, feels lonely and significantly disrupts our ability to overcome such difficulties.
Thus, psychotherapy is first and foremost an interpersonal process wherein all attention is directed to understanding and feeling what it means to be you in the world. My aim is to provide you with a secure and safe space from which we can collaboratively explore and articulate attachment patterns of relating to ourselves and others, especially under emotional distress. These patterns tend to be persistent, generalized across relationships (including with the therapist!), and are rooted in past repeated interactions with close others at times of need. Identifying and articulating these attachment patterns promotes a stronger sense of agency over our feelings and actions, and the ability to communicate our needs and effectively solicit support from people who care about us thus fostering more fulfilling relationships. Through active participation and attentiveness to what happens in the “here and now” (i.e., the way we speak, the gestures we make as we speak), as well as fostering a sense of spontaneity, my approach to psychotherapy encourages clients to reflect and unveil the most inner desires and fears, and the developmental history that has shaped them. I conduct therapy in both English and Hebrew. |
