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Consider your life as a carefully curated bookshelf.

Each book, picture and vase represent a different part of yourself and the experiences that make you who you are.

The ideal version of this picture is when all these parts and objects make sense to you where they sit.

We often find ourselves in therapy when something in life has come along and toppled our bookshelf over.

You sit on the floor surrounded by what used to be up on the shelf.

Only now your things are broken, often irreparable, and in chaos.

You may try to quickly put things back. But you find that some things don’t make sense the way they used to because of this experience, and some things are too broken to be displayed.

Even worse, you’re not sure you even trust this bookshelf anymore – it could get pushed over again.

It will never look the way it used to.

Another reason we find ourselves needing therapy is when we get it in our minds that we need to walk up to our own bookshelf and knock it over ourselves.

While it might look like a sensible bookshelf to someone else, you know deep down that something isn’t right.

Can you handle the mess you are about to create?

Sometimes you don’t even realize that something has happened to your bookshelf.

You wanted this change! And you still want this change, but now it doesn’t seem to make sense anymore.

Why do we feel so disorganized in the life we always dreamed of?

Supporting You to Keep Moving Forward

In my office, we acknowledge the gravity of what happened to your bookshelf; and we carefully examine what is left of you on the floor.

This is hard, painful work – and it will help ground you in your current crisis and contain you as you move forward in your life.

We decide what needs to be sorted through and what needs to be discarded. Together, we will envision what you want your bookshelf to look like.

Call (202) 656-8515 to set up a time to chat.