Psychotherapy. What it can be:
a space and time set apart, to speak and listen freely to your body, speech and heart/mind
a trusted relationship where it’s safe to travel to “the places that scare you”
an opportunity to learn about parts of yourself, honor their roles in your life, and relieve them of burdens they no longer need to carry
safety to explore and release trauma from your own life and what you may be holding from your family lineages
a chance to practice inhabiting yourself in new ways
a sounding board, a place to share what you normally would not
Welcome! I’m Callan.
I've practiced in various settings since 2005, and have worked with persons from a wide variety of cultural, racial, geographic, economic, gender, sexuality, and religious backgrounds, as well as those who identify as neurodivergent and disabled as it were. I welcome those in recovery. I look forward to speaking and seeing if our work together could be fruitful.
Kudos to you for beginning or continuing your inner work – I’m honored to be considered as a co-conspirator.
My Approach
My style is informed by Narrative, Solution-Focused, Internal Family Systems, Self-Compassion, cognitive-behavioral based EMDR (which I practice), Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, Polyvagal and Attachment theories. My current therapy interests include psychoanalysis and the work of Judith Blackstone (Realization Process). I have just become certified in Healing Ground aspect of the Realization Process.
“ When it comes to primary human emotions like love and anger, fear and joy, grief and gratitude, despair and hope -- what is, is. We all want to sit at the happiness banquet and feast on the bread of contentment, the wine of joy. We'd rather skip the emotional food that doesn't go down so well. In life's many meals, not everything is equally palatable; but it all needs to be digested. We can't laugh heartily unless we know how to cry. We can't be fearless unless we know the taste of fear. We can't be happy if we're afraid to feel sad. Our faith is not faith until it's tested. To be at peace, we have to be at home with all of our emotions, to get comfortable with vulnerability."
-Miriam Greenspan, "Healing Through the Dark Emotions"
