I specialize in therapy for people tangled up in difficulties like these. Most of these things operate on a completely automatic basis and they can vary in intensity, duration, and complexity. They can operate outside of a person’s awareness even while taking over the individual’s emotional life and contributing to unhealthy coping responses. Importantly, they can interfere with our healthy emotional responses to the world and ourselves that are necessary for understanding our circumstances, making choices, and taking relevant action to address our needs. Unaddressed, these problems can eventually undermine our emotional and physical health, autonomy, relationship quality, coping efforts, and our overall potential