Aditi Shah Associate Marriage & Family Therapist
AMFT#141063
Maybe the world has lost its color or you have lost your path. Perhaps the past still permeates your present in painful ways. I am here to help. I offer the relief of having a space to be who you are and show up just as you are in the moment. I offer relief from constant striving, the constant inner friction of needing to prove yourself or please everyone around you. I offer an easier way of moving through the world, with deep self-acceptance and personal power.
Clients who have taken me up on my offer have extricated themselves from suffocating relationships, have learned healthier ways of dealing with themselves and their emotions and have found their inner goodness.
How? Experientially. I make every session a chance to encounter yourself deeply, to experience yourself differently, right then and there. This expanded self-knowledge can inform different choices, can open up new ways of being. Sound intriguing? I am ready if you are.
How I work:
Focus on the Present Moment
I invite you to be in your present moment experience, sometimes in playful, silly ways, sometimes through the movement and the body, other times through mindfulness.
Awareness
In anything we do or talk about, I am interested in helping you notice yourself through it. This emphasis on present moment awareness can help deepen your understanding of yourself. More self-awareness means more choices for how to be and act.
Self-acceptance
I think about symptoms in terms of self-acceptance/self-love or the lack thereof. I firmly believe in the paradox of change: that you must accept yourself as you are before you can change. So any symptom can be viewed as a way in which a person is unable to accept himself or herself. Once we know where there is “resistance” to what-is, we can explore the resistance itself more deeply to come to a state of loving understanding of what’s there. I see this as a very gentle and compassionate way of working that puts you in control.
ashah@processes.org
Supervised by Svetlana Kriemer
MFT#53525