We’re surrounded by advice on mental health and wellness, but true well-being isn’t one-size-fits-all. Finding your own path toward wholeness is a deeply personal journey.
Initial consultation call with Laura
The Quarter-Life Crossroads: Therapy for Emerging Adults in the Liminal Space
The Interior Troupe: Exploring Archetypal Psychology, Active Imagination, Sandplay, and IFS in Therapy
"Soul-making is not the same as personal development or self-improvement; it is the creative engagement with the images that life brings to us, and the realization that these images are a response to the soul’s need for expression."
— James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling
Depth Oriented (Jungian) Therapy for Children
Finding a Therapist & Why Depth Therapy Supports Lifelong Growth
Working with the Shadow and Golden Shadow in Therapy
In the The Red Book, Jung wrote, "I must learn that the dregs of my thought, my dreams, are the speech of my soul." In poet Robert Bly’s book A Little Book on the Human Shadow: A Poetic Journey into the Dark Side of the Human Personality, Shadow Work, and the Importance of Confronting Our Hidden Self he encapsulates the shifting, shadowy parts of The Shadow in the image of “the long bag we drag behind us” that contains all the discarded parts of ourself. While we often think of the shadow as our repressed fears, rage, or shame, Jung and Bly also spoke of the golden shadow—the brilliance, creativity, or power we project onto others but struggle to own for ourselves.
Depth Psychotherapy for Teens
Sandplay both simple and profound. Why consider sandplay?
"Sandplay therapy utilizes a small tray of wet or dry sand in which you are invited to create scenes using miniature objects--a nonverbal communication of their internal and external worlds” (Labovitz Boik, and Goodwin 2000). I believe that we all have an intrinsic creative capacity that is essential to our feelings of aliveness. As a result of overwhelming experiences we can feel cut off from this capacity. Sandplay is a way to safely and in a protected, safe relational space, begin to renew contact with this process.
Healing comes through embodiment of the soul. -Marion Woodman
Often time the fact that we are able to hold hope, that there is a possibility of getting better bodes well for the likelihood that we will get better. You want to heal. If we think of the ways in our life that are teleological, meaning like an acorn they hold the entire oak tree, holding within us the possibility of change, means we are already changing.
I can recall times while camping and hiking, of lighting fires in the wet or cold, and seeing that first flash of ember forming, that initial spark hitting fine tinder. What a fragile time! The ember will grow into a fire with nurturing, attention, careful timing, and and some magic.
Therapy is a place that can foster this process, which is relational process that unfolds over time. Reach out, let’s talk about how therapy can help.
