Therapist San Francisco | Help With Life’s Challenges
Life can be extremely challenging at times. Sometimes the challenges are very big, like the loss of a loved one or a the loss of an important relationship through a breakup or divorce. Sometimes a person’s challenges are simply the daily grind of difficulties at work, with roommates, with friends or with family members. The smaller, daily challenges are also important to address, because their impact can accumulate overtime, robbing a person of important feelings of serenity, joy, vitality and connection. For many people, it can be helpful to have support through therapy for daily life challenges. Over time in therapy, many people find that they are eventually able to weather daily challenges without feeling overwhelmed or unhappy.
Most of my clients began working with me during a period of their lives in which they were overwhelmed with suffering due to various circumstances. Usually, clients find significant relief through our work together. I have been honored to witness people’s lives transform as they become more confident, less overwhelmed, more aware of their own strengths, more capable of advocating for themselves, and more able to connect with other people in ways that feel satisfying to them.
How Seeing a Therapist Can Help
Though my clients are sometimes struggling with feelings of poor self-worth when they first come to see me, I have deep respect for all of them. Therapy can sometimes be challenging, but also powerfully transformative—improving not only the client’s life—but also, eventually, the lives of the people around them. I believe that the positive effects of therapy often ripple out, resulting in a better world for us all. When we begin to recover from our own hurts, we also become more available to others. Freed from the distraction of our intense pain, we find a greater capacity to be present, to see circumstances clearly, to care about the suffering of others, and to act from that place of caring. We also become more capable of bringing our unique gifts and beneficial perspectives to others.
Often clients hadn’t noticed their beneficial features before—sometimes because they had an incomplete understanding of themselves and sometimes because they needed help learning to value themselves. Through therapy, clients frequently find it is possible to know and value themselves more than they had at the outset.
If you believe that I may be the right person to work with, it would be good to have a short phone conversation to discuss your goals for therapy, information about my practice, and each of our schedules. At any point, you may contact me, and I will be happy to hear from you.
If you are ready now, then now is a very good time to reach out.
You can schedule a time to talk, call me, or email me.