Individual Therapy
You Won That Argument with Yourself Years Ago
It started small and social, back in high school and college, around people you liked.
The first time it concerned you, you talked yourself out of the concern inside of an afternoon.
“I’ve got this. It is under control.”
Every hard week since has gone through that same door, and the ruling you made that afternoon has never once been reopened.
It Called You Back Every Time
What it handed you got smaller over the years, so what it took to get there got bigger.
You’ve stopped before, on your own, more than once and in more than one way.
By now it has cost you something you can’t write off, and somebody who matters to you has said so out loud.
That’s most of why you’re reading this instead of handling it alone for another year.
The First Thing You Want to Know Is Who Finds Out
You’ve spent a long time making sure this stayed invisible, and now you’re weighing telling one person on purpose.
Before anything else, here’s what happens to what you tell me and where it stops.
For years I worked with kids, and my own children went to school with some of them without ever knowing it.
They didn’t hear it from me, and they still haven’t.
Your Name Doesn’t Travel Home With Me
There were fifteen kids in our front yard one afternoon, and one of them was sitting in my office every week.
I drove past my own house and went around the block.
My wife told me later that the yard was clear, and she has never once asked me which one it was.
Nothing you bring me leaves that room either, including the people closest to me.
You’ll Stop Keeping Track of Who Knows
The tracking you’ve been doing for years, who knows what and how much of it, comes off to you the first time you sit down.
The work itself is unglamorous, and it starts with an honest account of the last month, in order, with nothing trimmed out to make it sound better.
From there we get at the thinking running underneath it, and at the people whose expectations you’re still answering years after anybody asked you to.
Then a hard week arrives and ends without you going through that door.
Tell One Person on Purpose
You’ve handled this by yourself for years, and it hasn’t gotten any smaller.
The first conversation costs nothing, runs twenty minutes, and happens by video anywhere in Tennessee or North Carolina.
Let the part nobody has heard stop with me.
Don’t Be Jason
Jason looked at the offer once and decided it wasn’t worth finding out.
A complimentary consultation is where the two of us work out whether I’m the one who can help you.