Greg Hertz

My Approach to Helping

I practice psychoanalytic/psychodynamic psychotherapy, working in-depth over time with careful attention to fundamental growth processes. Recurrent emotional pain is calling for us to reconnect to the truth of our experience. Being present with this discomfort is vital for the meaning and movement that we need to meet suffering with grace and growth. Our defenses against the fullness of our felt experience originate in adaptive strategies to preserve connection in early relationships. Certain feelings were unsafe for us to express and we learned to hide these parts from others and even from ourselves. In psychotherapy, we work through these habitual limited ways of being to find freedom, satisfaction, and peace.

My Approach to Helping

The psychotherapeutic relationship uniquely supports us to be with difficult yet important experience. Together, we listen to feelings, beliefs, associations, fantasies, memories, dreams, and the body. In a relationship of deep acceptance and attunement, we become aware of what is happening in us at a fundamental level and have a new experience of what is possible. The right therapy relationship can help us be with ourselves in a new way, reconnecting us with our life.