Individual Psychotherapy
Explore a Path of Transformation and Healing
Has managing your life become unmanageable?
Life is a creative process and as such, it is literally fraught with decisions. The choices you make define your path in life. If you're feeling stuck, you may have come to a crossroads. Perhaps you sense it's time to make a change, but aren't sure which path to take.
Change can create anxiety and fear, perhaps stopping you in your tracks and keeping you from making the progress you desire. If this is the case, it is essential that you claim your most valuable resource, your relationship with yourself.
As your therapist, I can support you to face your fears and gently guide you back on your path. By helping you to embrace your own thoughts and feelings, you can begin to know yourself more deeply. In this way, beginning therapy is like embarking on a journey, only on this journey, the destination is the self.
The Gift of Psychotherapy
with THE GIFT OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, YOU CAN LEARN TO:
Understand the way your thoughts inform your feelings
Improve your self-awareness and live more in the present
Increase your self-esteem and improve self-acceptance
Identify your fears and overcome obstacles
Organize your life and prioritize your goals
Develop more compassion for yourself and others
Relate more mindfully to challenges in your relationship
Identify and respond more consciously to your triggers
Nurture or rekindle emotional and/or sexual intimacy
Find more inner peace and contentment
Deepen your appreciation for yourself and your life
As your therapist, it is my intention to provide you with the trusted relationship and guidance you need to face your challenges and get back on track.
Therapy Can Provide Hope For Grief And Loss
Have you lost a loved one, job, or important relationship? Are you feeling overwhelmed by grief and despair? Are unresolved feelings starting to interfere with life? Don't suffer alone - I'm here to listen.
Loss is a universal human experience. We have all experienced losing something or someone that was vitally important to us, be it a job, family member, relationship, friend or pet. Despite this fact, sometimes losing something or someone important to us can become paralyzing, deadening us to our feelings and cutting us off from life. When coping with grief overwhelms your capacity to function in every day life, it may be important to seek help.
The grieving process is dependent upon moving through all of your feelings in an environment of safety and trust. You cannot grieve effectively in isolation. For this reason, it can be helpful to share your experience of loss with a trusted professional. It is my intention to provide a safe space for you to sort through complicated or conflicted feelings and ultimately arrive at a place of acceptance with your loss.
If you think you may have unresolved grief, it may be that circumstances prevented you from attending to your feelings. It is not too late. Moving on is not so much about getting over your loss as it is learning to live with it. Whether you are coping with the death of a loved one, a divorce or a breakup, I'd like to support you to address your feelings, arrive at a place of acceptance, and move on with your life.
Therapy can Help Empower highly sensitive people
Do you feel somewhat introverted or shy? Are you often overstimulated by crowded places, frenetic activity or loud noises? Do you become exhausted or feel the need to decompress after social interaction? If so, you may be a highly sensitive person.
If the world sometimes feels like too much for you, or if you become easily overwhelmed by sensory stimulation, you may be what's called a highly sensitive person, or HSP. Being shy or introverted and being a highly sensitive person are actually two different things. Many highly sensitive people are also introverted, due to the need to modulate overexposure in social settings. However, one doesn't need to be an introvert to be considered highly sensitive. In fact, 30% of all HSPs are actually extraverts.
What introverted and extraverted HSPs have in common is a tendency to experience the world more deeply than others. In that the majority of people are not highly sensitive, HSPs often end up feeling alienated or marginalized by society, with an overriding sense that they just don't fit in. This sometimes shows up as struggles with depression, anxiety, self-esteem, relationship or career challenges. If this tracks for you, you may need help to create a more positive sense of yourself and your place in the world.
If you think you might be a HSP, by starting therapy and learning the characteristics associated with this trait, you can begin to reframe them as positive attributes, rather than flaws, and ultimately come to understand and appreciate yourself on a deeper level. If you’d like to better understand how sensitivity may be a factor for you, get in touch to set up a free phone consult.
“THE PRIVILEGE OF A LIFETIME IS BEING WHO YOU ARE.”
—JOSEPH CAMPBELL
therapy can provide AD/HD tools For Success
Do you have trouble following through with things, or difficulty organizing tasks or activities? Do you have problems remembering appointments or obligations? Do you avoid tasks that require sustained mental attention? The answer may be simpler than you think. You may have Adult AD/HD, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
If you’re suffering from AD/HD, you may wake up in the morning already feeling overwhelmed and stressed out by the prospect of all you have to do. You may spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about all your responsibilities, while more and more things pile up. This vicious cycle can repeat, day after day, with the constant overwhelm leading to burn out, problems with depression and anxiety.
As your therapist, I can support you to break this cycle. Learning to slow down enough to focus on the basics is half the battle; it starts with proper sleep, a healthy diet, daily exercise, and regular social contact. It is far easier to manage the symptoms of AD/HD when feeling physically and emotionally grounded.
It is also important to learn to embrace your authentic strengths, which may be very different from those of the mainstream. There’s no reason to impose values, systems or strategies that work for the majority upon yourself if they’ve not proven effective for you. Finally, it is critical to learn how to effectively manage your space and time and this is where the structure of weekly therapy can be most helpful.
Psychotherapy can help you acquire the tools, systems and strategies to manage your time more effectively and become more organized in your daily life. With weekly therapy, these skills grow, building confidence, while positively impacting self-esteem and reducing stress. If you think you may have adult AD/HD, I welcome hearing from you to discuss your concerns and how therapy can help.
therapy can Help Nurture Your Creative Spirit
Do you express yourself creatively as a designer, visual artist, writer, musician or other creative type? Are you struggling with internal resistance, fears, or judgments? Are you holding yourself back with self-doubts or self-criticism?
Perhaps it's time to get out of your own way and let your creativity flourish.
For many, creativity and artistic self-expression are vitally important components of living a fulfilled life. People sometimes encounter difficulty when these values are not supported by family, friends, work, or society. Invariably, it is challenging to reconcile your vision of living an artful life or making a meaningful artistic contribution to the world within the constraints of an environment that does not support your goals.
However difficult it is to deal with the judgments of others, it is even more insidious when you allow your own critical inner voice to shut you down and block creative flow. If you are suffering because of your own judgments, it is crucial to learn to confront your inner critic and turn down the volume on this voice. As your therapist, I can offer you the tools you need to bring this self-condemning voice into proper perspective.
Whether you are an established artist or just beginning to define yourself, I'd like to help you address your creative struggles. My goal is to provide a safe environment for you to gain clarity on the issues and the support you need to resolve them. If you feel challenged by some aspect of the creative process or just need help nurturing your creativity, getting in touch with Sarita Redalia Psychotherapy may yield meaningful solutions for you.
“THERE IS NO LIGHT WITHOUT SHADOW, AND NO PSYCHIC WHOLENESS WITHOUT IMPERFECTION.”
—CARL JUNG
Therapy can Help Create a Better Work/Life Balance
Are you a self-described workaholic? Do you demand perfection from yourself or others? Have you lost the balance between your work and personal life? If so, it may be that a work-based self-esteem is contributing to the imbalance.
Perfectionism and the obsession to achieve can create a sense of havoc that throws life off balance. Fixated on desired outcomes in the quest for power or control, one can become enslaved to the notion this will act as a reprieve from the negative self-image held inside. When unrealistic expectations cause you to denigrate your own achievements, you deprive yourself of the validation for which you are most hungry.
The tendency to overwork and raise the bar ever higher create a form of “emotional anorexia” in which you starve yourself of what would be ultimately most nourishing - your own love and approval.
The false belief that your value is based solely on your achievements in life often has its origin in childhood. An externally based valuation system sometimes forms in response to unprocessed grief over the loss of a parent or through the trauma of divorce. Children often blame themselves for these early losses, making themselves “bad” in the process. From their perspective, it is safer to make the self bad than to imagine their parents being at fault.
This sense of inferiority, indebtedness, or being “less than” lies at the core of a work-based self-esteem. When you attempt to put negative feelings about yourself at bay by engaging in endless cycles of exertion at work, you never fully claim the elusive self-worth this achievement would seem to promise. Quite the contrary, when constantly pursuing increasingly higher standards for yourself, you become exhausted, at times to the point of emotional or physical collapse.
For many, work is the means through which a positive self-image is maintained. Yet, when overwork, or your strategy for maintaining emotional equilibrium becomes problematic itself, it may be time for help.
How it works
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You may call my voicemail or use the form below to schedule an initial telephone consultation. This initial consult will give you a chance to ask me any questions you may have, as well as schedule an online or in-person therapy appointment.
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In our first few sessions, you will have the opportunity to share more about yourself and the challenges you are facing. We may discuss your history, your present concerns, hopes or goals, as well as potential next steps for you.
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As therapy unfolds, I will listen closely, provide feedback and check in with you throughout the process. My intention is to proceed at a pace that feels safe, and to let what matters most to you direct the course of our work together.
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Because therapy is a collaborative relationship, your feedback on your experience with me is integral to the process. I welcome hearing your thoughts, feelings, memories and dreams. Your reflections enrich and inform the journey ahead.
Book a Phone Consult
If you have questions or would like more information, feel free to contact me to set up a free initial telephone consultation. Please provide your contact information and some times you’d be available for a 20-minute phone conversation. I look forward to hearing from you.
IMPORTANT INFOrmation
You may call my office voicemail 24-hours a day and leave me a confidential message.
I am available to meet with you online or in-person at my Union Street office.
Appointments are generally 50-minutes in length and are scheduled on a weekly basis.
Longer or more frequent sessions are available for more intensive work.
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