From the Ground Up
Our growth and development takes place as we learn to attend more fully to our thoughts and feelings, to what moves us as sensing, living beings. There’s an essential aliveness which is present within us. Yet we can also become closed off from ourselves as though something of who we truly are has been lost.
There’s a sensitivity that we all have which over the years might have become such a burden to you. This sensitivity might have got in the way at school, your places of work and in your relationships. You may have closed off from your sensitivity, in order to make your life more manageable.
Therapy takes place as a gradual emergent process. You begin from where you are. You may feel a need for some direction, in which case we can agree to a fixed number of sessions and regular times to review how things are going. Or you may feel that you can allow for your therapy to be more open-ended, where a key feature is the relationship that you are building with your therapist. As safety and trust are built so it becomes possible to welcome more and more of yourself into the therapy space.
Such receptivity can only happen, though, out of an understanding that it can never be imposed or required. You take to your therapy what you feel ready to share.
As time goes on, dynamics from other relationships can be recognized to occur in the therapy space, as well, and can be worked with. Psychodynamic is a term for how the dynamics of past relationships continue to play out in our interactions in daily life. Making room to consider how these dynamics play out can be incredibly meaningful.