I have done, and as needed, continue my own work in therapy. It can be difficult to find a therapist for yourself that is a good fit and meets your needs. You are looking for someone with experience, specialized knowledge, and a passion for helping other therapists.
You may feel concerned or hesitant going to therapy for yourself because you want a confidential space to work with a therapist, and that can feel limited. You want to be completely sure that a therapist will respect your privacy, work, and space.
You may be looking for your own therapist because you are feeling overwhelmed or need a safe space to process and work through countertransference. This is a part of being a therapist, we are human, and care for those we work for so emotions will arise.
Perhaps, a colleague, professor, or friend suggested you seek personal therapy because of something that has come up in your work.
It could be you are looking for a therapist to support you because by doing our own work it balances, centers, and empowers the work we do with our clients.
No matter how you arrived here, I am honored and glad you are here. Continue to read on to see if my counseling services are a good fit for you.
As a therapist, we need support just as much (if not more) than everyone else because of the work we do.
If we allow our issues to be left unchecked as therapists, we are especially vulnerable to burnout, depression, depersonalization, loss of empathy, and/or dissociation.
I have been there. I worked community mental health for years seeing clients back-to-back to back and pushed to continue to see more, more, and more. It was difficult and motivated my work to help other therapists also find balance and joy in their work.
This type of work as a therapist is to take on more than we can handle in the hopes of helping everyone. This idea while with the best intentions is not sustainable. You are human, just as human as our clients we work with and serve.
In our work and professional circles, we may receive messages that we should have our “act together”, “grin and bear it”, which makes us feel ashamed and unsafe to get help from others when our own lives get difficult.
In cases of burnout, fatigue, and frustration you may start to question if you chose the right profession…which feels isolating, anxious, and depressing.
If any of these experiences describe you: YOU want a space where you can safely, nonjudgmentally, and compassionately take off your “therapist” hat and let your guard down. To allow someone else who cares attend to your mental health to better your work, life, and joy in the profession.
One of our goals will be connect with your individual core values as a therapist.
You are a fellow therapist and it may help you to understand my therapeutic approach. I tailor my sessions to the client’s needs in the here-and-now, often working with different therapeutic styles as expressed and co-directed through reflection in the process to help in the progress with my clients.
To that end, I am a humanistic and existential psychotherapist at the core of my therapeutic being which serves as the foundation to other evidence-based approaches that may suit your individual needs.
Specifically, I emphasize understanding meaning, engagement, and purpose in life. Helping you to delve deep within your own psyche and challenge the way you see and interact with the world.
I seek to collaborate with you in your therapeutic journey. During our initial consultation, I will offer different options for how I can best serve you, and you can decide on one of these options which is a good fit for you. We will continue to discuss this through therapy to enable and engage with your evolving self.
Why I am passionate about working with other therapists and therapists in-training
As a therapist, I relate and have experienced first hand common concerns that come up in our field. I have spent years in community mental health working tirelessly for little to no pay, feeling overworked and pushed to see more, and more, more clients back-to-back! The pressure to perform and keep up was immense! I wanted to provide for my family, get my license, keep up with other therapists, and learn/grow as a therapist at the same time.
I started off as an accountant before I started my own work in therapy which inspired me to go back and get my masters in clinical counseling. In that journey I had an incredibly impactful mentor who was one of my counseling professors. His resonating words have always sat within me “Jason, pay it forward.” Becoming a counselor changed my life forever. It set me free and emboldened my spirit and work as a professional.
When a new therapist or therapist in-training comes onto my caseload; words do not do justice on how much joy it brings me to help them in their journey and do this work.
