A core part of my therapy with individuals is the deeper understanding, connection, and love of our Nature.

This love of Nature calls on an instinct to protect all ways of being – even and especially the aspects of human nature that the mental health field has often sought to eradicate, numb, cure. 

This does not mean that the affliction is off the hook or that we glorify it. 

We will look at the concrete impacts of your depression, ADHD perfectionism, rumination, procrastination, or whatever constellation of symptoms are causing you pain. 

We will also greet these manifestations of self with curiosity and compassion. 

I treat these diagnoses as a double edged-sword – capable of intelligence and beauty as well as destruction. 

Like Chesterton’s Fence – unless you can explain why a fence was erected, don’t tear it down.