Unconventional psychotherapy
“Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.”
Therapy is weird
One-on-one meetings that are specifically focused on attending to you are not the sorts of interactions often had in daily life. While moments in therapy can feel somewhat removed from reality, they are also more intimate, alive, and generative than many of the standard encounters you might experience on a day-to-day basis. This requires someone who has the range to meet you where you are, help you identify where you are trying to go, and accompany you through the twists and turns of that trek.
I am not interested in canned therapy interventions, worksheets, step-by-step guides, or linear paths. First and foremost, I am interested in your life story. I believe that everything you have done that has led you to this moment has been an attempt to take care of yourself, whether or not it has yielded the results you hoped for. Seeking out a collaborative partner to support you and your intrapsychic and interpersonal work is a revolutionary act towards understanding how your experiences have shaped you, how you are managing their impacts in the present, and how you can harness your agency in creating yourself and your story going forward.
My background as a massage practitioner and yoga teacher, as well as my graduate training in somatic psychology, brings a holistic perspective to my approach. It’s difficult to talk about the role of the body in psychotherapy without veering into cheesy territory. I endeavor to incorporate somatics into my work in a way that rings true without evoking my own resistance to the disingenuous and pretentious elements that can sometimes be found in body-oriented modalities.
I enjoy bringing various metaphor systems into the therapy realm, particularly fairy tales, folklore, pop culture, literature, poetry, sitcoms, myth, and the universal archetypes present in these stories. The stories of our lives are implicated in the stories of our societies and cultures, and stories of human experience passed down through generations. Investigating how your personal story is connected to shared stories and experiences provides a sense of kinship, belonging, and novel actionable perspectives.
“They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.”
Hey there, I’m Lindsay
As a psychotherapist, I strive to show up authentically with my clients, cultivating a realness that allows for genuine connection and invites unaffected openness into the work. My approach is informal and candid; I’m not here to throw a bunch of jargon and cookie-cutter solutions at you. I’m interested in developing an uncontrived relationship with you that will support us in discovering what actually works for you.
Services
I work with clients to connect what went wrong in the past with what isn’t working for them in the present in order to unravel the stories they’re ensnared in and weave fresh narratives that lead to new outcomes. My work is primarily rooted in story—and the self as constructed narrative—with archetypal and somatic underpinnings. I firmly believe that shared humor and unfeigned rapport are indispensable components of a strong and rewarding therapeutic alliance.
I provide depth psychotherapy for adult individuals in California, New York, Oregon, Washington, and Hawai’i. I also offer therapeutic coaching services for those who reside outside of these regions. My practice is exclusively online.
Contact
To get started, please get in touch to schedule an initial consultation.
“We can’t stop here. This is bat country!”