Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh
- I’m able to work with clients anywhere in California via telehealth.
- I work with individuals as well as with couples/partners/polycules.
- I have experience working with children, adolescents, and adults.
- I offer 50 minute sessions with a standard rate of $150 for individual sessions and $180 for couples/partners/polycules.
I believe therapy should be accessible and offer sliding scale spots in my practice, so please ask if that’s something that would help you gain access to therapy.
There are many different ways to approach psychotherapy and healing. These are a few of the ways that I often work with clients.
Narrative
Narrative therapy focuses on rewriting your life stories to empower yourself and better support what you want for your life. It assumes that you are the author of your own life and that there is power in the stories told about you and your experiences. It is a highly collaborative and non-pathologizing approach.
Parts-Work
Parts-work is an umbrella for similar approaches that believe that all of us have different parts of ourselves that may conflict or disagree with each other at times, that parts of ourselves may hold difficult feelings or ways of coping that we wish to let go of, or that we may need a different way of relating to those parts. This can include Internal Family Systems (IFS), inner critic work, and inner child reparenting.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic theory and therapy are based on the idea that unconscious thoughts, desires, and memories influence our feelings and our behavior, with the goal being to understand how our past influences our present. Attachment theory falls under this, focusing on how our earliest relationships with our caregivers can influence our relationships with others today.
Bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy is a therapeutic approach that incorporates storytelling and engaging with others stories to help support examining your relationship to those stories and communicating your own thoughts and feelings. While this is traditionally done with written texts, including memoirs, novels, and poetry, it can involve any storytelling medium that feels right to you including movies, video games, and song lyrics.
Play Therapy
Play therapy uses the language of play to build the therapeutic alliance and support children and adolescents in exploring and processing their thoughts, feelings, and experiences through various forms of play. This can look like playing games (physical and digital), solving puzzles, building, coloring, and more.
Relationship Therapy
Relationship therapy has a lot of different ways it can look. Whether you’re monogamous or polyamorous, whether it’s a romantic relationship or a friendship, a relationship that has become challenging or a relationship where you simply want to be prepared for future challenges, working with a therapist can help folks learn to navigate, communicate, grow, and change relationships together. I have completed Gottman Level 1 training and frequently incorporate narrative, parts-work, and psychodynamic therapy into my work with people in relationships.
Brannon Reid Lewis 