Gabriel Boyer (he/him)

Relational 

I mix attachment theory with contemporary gestalt and relational psychoanalytic approaches. This means I prioritize building a safe therapeutic relationship. This is two fold, it creates a place to heal through experiencing a secure attachment (genuine compassion and support, honesty, productive conflict) and second it creates a foundation to explore vulnerable aspects with greater comfort, so we can get to the root and help you move forward.

Gestalt

Relational Gestalt Therapy is a process orientated, experiential approach, centered on your lived experience. It is a practical and optimistic approach. The central question is how do you connect to yourself, to others, to your environment? What strategies did you create to adjust to the life you've had? By creating a safe space to deepen into your experience, awareness expands, core issues clarify and can close. Space emerges for a new response, a new way to move and connect with life.

Somatic Therapy (Body Centered)

We are more than our words and thoughts, but a whole dynamic being with currents of sensation, impulses, and ways of moving that make up the fabric of our being. I have eclectic training in somatic therapy, primarily in contemporary Reichian therapy which explores a dual impulse (connect and resist) and aims to create fuller expressions of each. I use slow, exploration and presence from Hakomi, trauma informed tools from Somatic Experiencing, and my experiences in Yoga and Buddhist practice.

Psychodynamic 

Relational psychoanalysis incorporates attachment theory, feminist and queer theory. Coalescing with Stephen Mitchell (ancestor to Esther Perel), healing is through a mutually collaborative exploration of the interplay between your inner process and the world you were born into. This includes your attachment history, relationship patterns, and working with the present moment, dynamics and emotions happening in session.

Depth Therapy

I have a master's in depth therapy for individuals, couples and families. My take on it is practice and grounded. I see Depth therapy as a matter of deep listening and of holding all aspects of life with sacredness. Opposed to the pathologizing history in therapy, courageously moving towards our pain moves us through it, connects us to our life spirit and paradoxically deepens joy and freedom. It is the difficult work of therapy, but with the right person, it is greatly rewarding.