Masuru Emoto's drop of water responding to the word, truth.
I understand clients’ negative emotions as ordinary responses to unmet needs. I recognize unwanted habits of all kinds as an avoidance of deeply painful emotions, emotions that can be successfully confronted and transformed with the kind of in-depth exploration that thoughtful therapy--therapy that accepts everything that enters the room--fosters.
I understand a person’s external world as a reflection of his or her inner world. As such, many life events can be translated as happenings emerging out of the unconscious. For example, chronic physical and psychic pain often serve an important, albeit unpleasant, function. Before one can move on, one must understand the function of—and lessons offered—by seemingly intractable pain.
In fact, symptoms symbolically communicate with you, inviting you to explore deeper issues that lay in the subconscious or the forgotten past. Your psychotherapist arrives to bolster your courage, help you surmount seemingly overwhelming problems, and to remind you that you are truly worthy of compassion. By facing the ultimately unavoidable, you can verify that you still possess the potential for a winning, invaluable life. Crucial to that process, however, is the necessity of an inner transformation.