A Good Hard Journey Awaits
Dear Client:
You may feel hopeless, fearful, or angry about the state of your own life or the whole world. You may be grieving or ill, exhausted by unsatisfying work or bad habits, facing or avoiding a needed change. You may know or have no idea that you're navigating each day according to trauma-bound beliefs and practices.
The factors that bring people to this website vary greatly, but a common theme is a sense of lost heart.
People who land here have described a disconnect between who they always thought they were (or have long been told they should be) and who they really are. They want to know and be themselves more genuinely even (or maybe especially) when it's hard.
Mindful Psychotherapy & Trauma Resolution's Jen Erickson offers the conditions to help clients change, for real and for good, by way of their most difficult personal, interpersonal, social, and spiritual experiences.
Change is a mixed bag. It can be wanted or resisted. It can be daunting or liberating. Depending on a person's expectations and view, change can seem to take forever like a slow walk up an endless mountain, or it can happen on a dime when we least expect it.
This benefits the world.
So, Dear Client, who are you...?
Maybe you're an academic, a professional, a health care provider, a therapist, a military service member, a spiritual seeker or psychonaut, a parent of a troubled teen, or in a relationship and having a hard time. You might be dealing with anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, suicidality, or PTSD as a result of direct trauma (like childhood or adolescent abuses, military experiences) or vicarious trauma (like exposure to or responsibility for traumatized people).
Maybe you feel unchanged or worse after prior therapy or psychiatric treatment and feel like no one can help you. Maybe you're incapacitated or terminally ill wondering what really matters. Maybe you're in recovery from addiction, wanting more out of sobriety. Maybe you're an adult child of an alcoholic or a personality disordered parent, wanting to be free from the effects of neglect or abuse.
Jen has 18 years of experience helping people with obstacles like these.
It is Jen's hope that however and whoever you are right now, your work in therapy will ease your emotional and physical suffering, increase your awareness and perspective, sharpen your insight, bolster your courage, and unleash your compassion (for starters, for yourself).
Whether you're in a tough spot right now or wanting to face an old trauma or ongoing pattern, if you live in Pennsylvania (verify me), Delaware (verify me), Vermont (verify me), or Florida (verify me) and have a sense that there is more to understand, appreciate, enjoy, and offer in this life, please get in touch. You can book a free 15 minute phone or video call with Jen to ask questions and explore the possibilities.
I'm glad you're here. I can help.