Faith Detwiler

As a therapist, my history is in the family systems, trauma, and attachment approaches.  I see behaviors as best understood in context: often, behaviors that are no longer serving us have long-time roots in helping us survive difficult circumstances (sometimes in family of origin, sometimes trauma).  In order for significant or long-term change to happen, we will spend time learning and making sense of your experiences and how they shaped you.  This allows us to understand your current choices, the legitimate needs underneath these, and healthier ways to meet these needs.  From this understanding I often spend time guiding/coaching/teaching more adaptive responses to events and this frequently leads to insight, healthy grief, and a growth in your own self-compassion. Along the way, you will learn skills to manage triggers, heightened physiology, negative self-talk,  and difficult day-to-day events.  Clients often experience this as having clarity and taking healthy levels of control back over their lives. 

Because of the focus on understanding you, you will find this approach to be very specific to you. I provide guidance in the healing process after we have agreed on the areas to focus on.  You will experience this approach as one with shared power, as we both come with essential expertise. 
 

This approach can work well with those with symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, stress, life transitions, and ADHD.  You will experience a warm, caring environment, where you are treated with value and dignity.  The clients that thrive with this approach already experience some stability in life (able to keep a job, get out of bed, take their medications, etc.), are adults, honest, engaged with the learning process, open to doing emotional work both inside and outside of session, and are eventually willing to take measured risks.