Our Approach to Emotional Wellness

The emotional words you use may describe your experience, but they do not define who you are.

We will look beneath the emotional labels you use to understand the perceptions, predictions, beliefs, and demands that give your experiences meaning. Our shared goal will not be to judge an emotion or urgently make it disappear. Instead, we seek to better understand the thinking that lies behind the emotional word. We explore the origins of emotion and create room for a more deliberate, adaptive response.

Together, we learn to rely on curiosity and self-awareness rather than seeking to escape, suppress, or immediately change the emotional mind.

Our meetings will often focus on active, here-and-now thinking through an educational, solution-focused approach.

Together, we will learn to engage in emotional problem-solving by curiously examining our thoughts, ideas, and predictions. Using the accessible language available in the moment, we will invite honest self-examination and explore the conclusions we draw about the circumstances we face. We can untangle the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and identify the thoughts that may contribute to our emotional hardship.

Only then can we develop practical skills and methods for making more deliberate choices that lead to increasingly adaptive outcomes.