INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
Individual Psychotherapy with Dr. Sheila Sweeney is here to serve as a holding space for multi-generational healing for you and those connected to you.
Holding space to accomplish your self-work, together with a trained mental health professional, will help you better understand and formulate the missing pieces to your puzzle. I hope that everyone who comes for healing leaves with PEACE. This is triadic work, which means, the work is not only between the therapist and the client but also the space that holds the energy and data that takes place inside the therapy room.
Psychotherapy will include conceptual underpinnings such as Curiosity, Partnering, Listening, Integration, Processing, Relationship, Formulation, and Interpretation. Psychotherapy also includes the initial constructing of your story, you are telling your story and I am listening.
In partnership with you, I will formulate themes that capture your internal working patterns. These patterns will ultimately capture the true essence of your working goals, ultimately leading to re-constructing and better understanding the dynamics of your story.
Let me tell you a story about my work:
On this journey through healing, I am CURIOUS about you, let's be curious together. Through PARTNERING we create and allow space for deeper levels of understanding your mind. While delving into the deeper, unknown space, I am here as a professional partner, to LISTEN to your story, any way you tell it. Through curiosity, partnering, and listening, I will help INTEGRATE what we discover together. Integration is taking your lived experiences through dialogue and synthesizing all of [your stuff] together.
This process leads to your stuff beginning to make better sense to you and those connected to you. It is a PROCESS. I do this through RELATIONSHIP building. Relationships are a way to go through this process together. Through our relational work, we will look to develop a steady pace, a caring-empathic, and authentic connection. I meet people where they are at, with a mutual baseline of respect, honesty, and professionalism. Through the intentional interchange of information and wisdom, together, we will FORMULATE hunches.
Formulation means to construct and design all of your shared information into a more imaginable picture, a way of seeing things about yourself. I will experience this informational picture with you and share what I observe by way of INTERPRETATION. Interpretation means I will verbally share with you, a play-by-play, re-constructed story. This story will be one that we now have built together, highlighting your self-work, alongside my clinical impressions. This new narrative will guide you towards holistic wellness, healed experiences, and hoped for intergenerational capacity for healing [you and those connected to you].