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Individual Therapy for Professionals
Professionals with demanding careers--lawyers, physicians and dentists, psychologists, architects, accountants--depend an enormous amount on their intellect in their usual day: conceptualizing, diagnosing, strategizing, prioritizing, just managing time. This orientation takes a toll on their emotional life and the energy available to transact with loved ones or find partners. Respecting your real-world goals, my work allows more of "the inner you" to infuse your work life, so there is more of a natural bridge between your work-life and your whole interpersonal world. I believe that a sign of wholeness is that your insides and outsides match, and as we work to help you become more true to yourself, you will bring more of your natural self into every arena of your life. To this end, we work together exploring underlying dynamics in an atmosphere of mindfulness, respect, and kindness. I want you to be comfortable—and learn to be more comfortable with your underlying discomfort. When challenging you is called for, it is with a heightened awareness of your vulnerability and with the intent to bring out the best in you. But more than feedback per se, it will be the authenticity in both of us that will move you from what you think has been limiting you, to the honest truth. I integrate the perspectives of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (Psychodynamic, Family Systems, Differentiation Theory, and Attachment Theory), Body Psychotherapy, and Transpersonal psychology in my work. Presenting problems include a full spectrum of relationship issues, and the handling of them from both practical and spiritual perspectives. I work with executives and professionals and their partners as well. I am particularly skilled at working with childhood abuse issues and their adult consequences. Usually, I do two-hour sessions every other week. Clients who come to me are, or soon become, aware of their existential unease and their desire to find a deeper understanding, meaning, and freedom in their life. Presenting issues can include: • Interpersonal conflict Many people I work with do not come with a highly specific presenting problem. Often, they are people who have had a taste of personal growth but have allowed the busyness of their lives to sidetrack them in their journey. Whether you’re looking to have a spiritual and emotional awakening or to deepen the one you’ve already had, the work I do nourishes that longing in you. Here are some examples of using Individual Therapy for Professionals: |
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> Audio, Videos > PodCasts > Newsletter Sign-up > Press/Interviews > Special Topics > Resources  “Growing up I was The Bookworm, and my whole life, I've been described along the continuum from "in her head" to "intellectual" to "quite insightful." Many well-meaning therapists had tried to get me more into my body and my emotional self—but it was only working with Matthew that it didn't feel like someone was trying to change me or even heal me—just that his extraordinary ability to hang out with me exactly where I was, allowed me to fall in to my "Judy-ness"—neither my mind nor my body—just some deep sense of Being Me that I had longed to embody and feared would never happen.
There is no dimension or vibration of the human experience that Matthew doesn't meet with respectful embrace. There is no word for the trust he facilitates—and it is in this energy—wordless even when there are words—that something magical happens.”
Judy G., Ph.D. psychotherapist |
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