Don Elium, MA MFT 925 256-8282
Services Available In California
• TeleHealth office in San Francisco Bay Area
Individual Counseling
Even in the best of intentioned situations, you sometimes learn to hide your true feelings about things in your families, work to fit places, and social relationships. You fear that if you express your own needs and emotions, you will be seen as selfish, self-absorbed, or not responsible. However, how can you be responsible (response-able) when pretending to feel, think, or act in ways that go against how you feel? This habit becomes exhausting to the body, mind, and spirit, so overwhelming that you cannot respond to what is happening around you and feel trapped.
Realizing you have lost your connection to yourself can feel uncomfortable, even painful. Being more open about your feelings requires a surprising new step. It requires compassion, kindness, and mercy turned inward toward yourself and your feelings and needs.
Self-compassion, Self-kindness, and Self-mercy are the paths to finding your energy and yourself as you turn toward what you feel and can reason about the overwhelming and distressing situations in yourself, your family, and your work.
I want to help you make the fundamental changes to be right with yourself. A good match for any reason, I will provide referrals of other therapists you may want to consider.
This therapy is designed to create as much progress as possible in each session. The length always depends upon what you want to accomplish. I will gladly speak with you by phone to answer any of your counseling questions and see if I am the right fit for you and your circumstances.
My California TeleHealth Office is in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA.
