New Paradigm Process Therapy & Consulting offers a variety of support services to individuals, couples, families and groups. These include therapeutic support unavailable in the mainstream psycho-medical treatment model, as well as consulting services for organizations seeking conflict transformation and healthy workplace cultures. NPPTC uses the facilitation techniques of Process Oriented Psychology and Leadership, within a social equity and anti-racist framework.
Mission
New Paradigm Process Therapy offers customized support services to individuals using the facilitation techniques of Process Oriented Psychology and Leadership, a social equity and anti-racist framework, loving presence, and profound curiosity.
As a therapist, this is what drives me and inspires my work with clients.
Values
sharing wisdom and defining value for ourselves
I believe everyone has expertise from lived experience. Everyone has profound gifts to offer. Part of my work with clients is to shine a light on the wisdom they already possess, and to support individuals to bring those gifts fully into the world.
We must broaden and deepen the sense of what is valuable in one another, and in ourselves, beyond what is currently celebrated in mainstream culture. It is an honor to learn with and from my clients about how we can create meaningful lives for ourselves and our communities. We do this work together, with deep feeling, and the empirical belief that self-work affects the wellbeing of those around us, including family, friends, coworkers, and our greater communities.
collaborating to change cultural norms from violence and repression to vulnerability and connection
For those of us who feel the devastation of family and community fractures, arguably due to systemic inequity and violence, culture change is excruciatingly slow. Still, I find inspiration from the people-led social movements that show me that revolutionary change processes begin with those on the margins. We all deserve healing. We are stronger together.
In a small but tangible way, I support my clients to begin this work of healing by interrupting internalized dynamics of abuse and self-criticism. Through greater awareness we develop greater choice. We learn to identify and challenge cultural norms of violence and repression within ourselves. Together we plant the seeds of personal power, that over time bloom into healthier connections with others.
witnessing one another’s humanity
For many of us, there is a profound element of healing that is only accessible through relationship. I first came to understand the significance of being witnessed in my grief when I attended a bereavement support group. I sat silently for the first several gatherings. I could not bring myself to speak the truth out loud: my mother had killed herself. Gradually, as I heard others tell their stories of loss, I recognized my own desire to be deeply seen, heard, and understood. Sharing personally with a group, or with one caring witness, can be a powerful step to healing traumas and heartbreak. Especially when we have been hurt in relationship.
healing is possible
No matter the horrors one has experienced, I sincerely believe healing is possible.
I eventually resurfaced from the undertow of grief that was my mother’s death, and found myself able to laugh and feel joy. I was astounded at the truth that the two were related. My heart, and my capacity to love had actually grown, when I thought they had died with her. Our pain and our resilience reside in the same place. It’s all the same muscle.
Trauma researcher Bessel van der Kolk reminds us so beautifully that, “Trauma confronts you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you also see resiliency, the power of love, the power of caring, the power of commitment, the power of commitment to oneself, the knowledge that there are things larger than our individual survival...In some ways I don’t think you can appreciate the glory of life unless you also know the dark side of life.”
Body wisdom, body love.
This value is simple. It is a wish that we may liberate ourselves and each other from the fear-based, body-shaming beliefs and behaviors we have learned. It’s a wish to learn new ways of thinking about and living in our bodies. I work to encourage us all to bring our most loving relationship values into partnership with our bodies. Imagine: what would it be like to offer kindness, respect, generosity, and trust to the body you inhabit?
