Ethical, compassionate & mindful…
My commitment to you is to be an ethical, compassionate, and mindful helping professional who holds your process with sacred care. No matter what challenges you are facing, I see your best essence.
While together we bring compassionate awareness to the deeply held roots of your challenges, I also help you to develop everyday practices that support your wellbeing. For example, I may help you to: understand and communicate your needs, relate to and express your emotions, create more intimacy in your life, set clear boundaries, trust your intuition, and, access your strengths and inner resources.
How sessions unfold is determined always by your needs and goals. With intuitive sensitivity to your underlying concerns, I help you to develop your own insights towards desired change.
My Knowledge Base
Healing Trauma
My approach to healing trauma is based in relational, neurobiological and feminist methods helping you to process past events in safe ways and live with grounded, present day awareness. You can recover a sense of safety, joy and connection with self and others.
Contemplative Psychotherapy
Through bringing compassionate and non-judgmental awareness to patterns of suffering, while holding an unwavering trust in your intrinsic wisdom & wellbeing, suffering parts of yourself can grow out of their tight, constricted shells into their full bright potential.
Relational & Psychodynamic
Challenges in adulthood often have roots in childhood fears and unnameable anxieties that caused us to disconnect from parts of self or from others. As a therapist, I offer a safe and trustworthy relationship within which you can experience new possibilities for being and relating that you can then take into your life.
Family Systems Approach
Together, we work with the internal impact of past and present events in order to introduce desired changes in your external world. Parts of you which have long carried unprocessed memories, emotions or beliefs can be liberated. I help you to gain awareness of your coping strategies and relationship dynamics in order to increase communication and connection within yourself and with others.
Creativity & Flow
Creative vitality is an aspect of our intrinsic wellbeing. When we are flowing with our creative energy, we feel alive. We engage more flexibly and courageously with our experiences, choices and challenges. As a therapist, I see your creative essence and help you tune into it and trust its flow.
Neurodiversity Affirming
I bring an in-depth understanding of how neurodivergence (Autism, ADHD, Giftedness, Brain Injury, PTSD and more) shapes core aspects of your being and relationships. A full and meaningful life depends on replacing learned survival strategies of masking and habitual coping with acceptance, self-respect & self-love, and support. I can help you to navigate to deepened self-awareness and new possibilities that increase your confidence, happiness and wellbeing. Please note that I do not diagnose or provide neuro -psychological assessments.
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Pamela Richardson, PhD, RCC 