In much of contemporary mental health treatment, symptoms are treated like things to be managed and coped with.

 

What if we listened to them instead?

Here, you will speak, and you will set the course. We will turn to your dreams, to moments from your past, to fantasies, to stray memories that return without warning, and to thoughts that seem to arrive from somewhere beyond your intention. You may bungle your words, find yourself on a tangent, or even  hear yourself say something you did not plan to say at all. While you may be used to ignoring these supposed lapses, it is precisely within them that our work begins.

If you're tired of worksheets and platitudes, I invite you to follow what stirs beneath your speech. Even if it is not the one you imagined, there is a way forward that belongs to you.