The journey of the inner sage:
Everything you have been through is present in this moment as wisdom
Inner Sage Psychotherapy & Consulting focuses on the practice of psychological wellbeing.
I focus on a Whole Human Orientation, the WHO of your life. Living a healthy human life means adapting and growing each day, integrating our experiences as we live so that we can respond powerfully to life's challenges in the ways that we would like. In today's world we are often faced with competing demands, duties, and desires. When we feel alienated from ourselves, having to silence our heart's desires for more practical concerns, we can lose touch with the core of our wisdom. Inner Sage Psychotherapy provides an opportunity to re-engage your life in a different way, to design and live a life that includes joy, contentment, curiosity, fulfillment, and ongoing growth in the areas you choose, free from being defined by circumstance, trauma, or unwise others. Grow your inner sage. Re-discover WHO you can be in this moment.
In psychology there is often a divide between mental health diagnosis and healing on one hand and the human potential movement on the other—moving from suffering to less suffering, OR, moving from a “here” that we’re unhappy with to a “there” of self-actualization. We can falsely believe that we need to “get over” our difficulties to start a new path toward the life of our dreams. When we do this, we deny ourselves all the lived wisdom we have gained by going through trials and tribulations. With self-compassion and access to wisdom, our full history of successes, a lived experience of knowing what is important to us, our healing and our growth become the same journey. We can then move into mastery and excellence.
What is Counseling Psychology?
Counseling Psychologists are often more broadly trained than clinical psychologists who tend to become specialists. Clinical psychologists study psychopathology in a medical model that sees mental illness as something abnormal, as something to be fixed. In counseling psychology, we see difficulties as naturally occurring, as a result of what we’ve been through in life. This can range from prenatal illness or early life trauma to the normal difficulties of living in a world that is not well organized to meet our basic needs, based on identity, culture, gender or various other experiences. Rather than becoming an expert in how to recognize your problems and respond by fixing them, you will understand how things came to be, be able to release your attention where needed, and focus your energy on what you’re growing in your life.
Sometimes it’s about looking in a different way.
“It’s not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it’s not possible to find it elsewhere.”
- Agnes Repplier