Therapy for Therapists
Online therapy throughout Oregon
No, you can’t just “take off your therapist hat” when you enter your therapist’s office - because it’s not a hat. It’s baked into who you are.
No, you can’t just squelch down your thoughts about how you would do that intervention differently - and you shouldn’t have to. When therapists are my clients, our collegiate relationship has to be acknowledged and negotiated, not dismissed or ignored.
This is where we stop pretending that therapists are just like any other client.
I love working with my colleagues: hearing your case study of yourself, looking under the hood of your elegant rationalizations, and helping you get free of some of the baggage that probably got you into this line of work in the first place.
And don’t worry, I already know your big secret - that you’re a hot mess just like everybody else.
As the child and grandchild of therapists (and a real human person in my own right), I’ve never harbored the illusion that people in this field have it all figured out in their personal lives.
You need a therapist who’s going to do more than validate and paraphrase - and you also need a therapist who isn’t afraid of you.
My work with therapist clients is deeply psychodynamic, heavy on interpersonal process, and appropriately challenging. If you’ve ever said “it’s the relationship that heals,” and you want to experience that for yourself - let’s talk.
