Jim Seger (he/him)

My Approach to Helping

Working together, we will discuss the challenges you face and consider the therapeutic approaches that seem most likely to benefit you. In some cases, you might decide to focus on how your family of origin or trauma history gets in the way of more fully being your better, healthier self. In other cases, you might want to work through challenging choices or situations in the present.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

As important as self understanding is, therapy is much more than just figuring out the what and why of our ways of being in the world. If understanding alone were enough to heal ourselves and our relationships, life would be much easier. But, for many of us, even after we develop some understanding, we still struggle. As understanding is developed we need to use that understanding to cultivate change. I use the term "cultivate" purposefully. We do not simply use our conscious understanding to impose internal change. Rather, like a farmer, we need to establish generative conditions that allow internal growth and shifts to occur. In some cases, therapy provides an opportunity to practice altering how we act in response to certain situations. In other cases, therapy may be more about figuring out how to create conditions in our lives and routines that allow difficult to fathom healing powers to change us in healthful ways.