“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I’ll meet you there.” -Rumi

Individual Therapy

Life is everchanging. Moment to new moment. Joy to sadness. Longing to peace. Always fresh. Somehow, that freshness, the aliveness and wonder can seem to be buried under the mundane. It seems unreachable, hidden under our piles of thoughts, bodily reactions and general sense of discomfort, lack and “not enoughness.” I am here to tell you, to remind you that it is here. The fresh wonder and beauty and awe is right here…calling us to look, see and feel its completeness. As an individual therapist it is my hope that I can support you as you uncover this fullness.

If this speaks to your heart, I am here to pick up your “story of life” and have a look with you in the hopes that what is seemingly hidden, can be recognized in plain sight.

Though you may feel lost and the situation seems unbearable, I am here to hold the suffering alongside you. Together, we can awaken your inherent strengths and insights. so that you live your life with freedom. 

Our suffering is shining a light on what matters to us…what it is that we want and care for. My care as your therapist is to sit with you and support you as you journey through your own inquiries and insights.

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I view therapy as a place to take PAUSE from our habituated behaviors, thoughts and emotions to look at what is standing in our way. What old stories are we telling ourselves that are preventing us from navigating our lives with freedom and ease? Through the practice of mindful attention, deep inquiry and laughter, one’s expanded awareness develops at its own pace and an internal peace will increasingly abide.

Individuals that seek out my practice are at a point in their lives where they can see that the strategies that they have developed to move through the world are no longer working for them…these strategies seem to be interfering with their ability to reach the full potential of their hopes and desires in life. Through mindfulness and inquiry, an awareness of patterns of thoughts, behaviors and bodily energy develops.

In this process of awareness, there is an emergence of grace towards oneself and an opportunity to step outside of the patterns and make new choices. Collaboratively, I support my clients to recognize their wants and desires as well as identify what is getting in the way. In doing this, my clients can begin to move through their lives aligned with their truest intentions as well as in connection to the present moment.

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I know that perhaps you’ve been trying to figure this out for a long time. It has become more unbearable and you are considering therapy. I am here to tell you that it can get better! Gratefully, I have witnessed relief and deep emotion as a client begins to see and experience life differently. It does not have to take months of therapy but can actually happen rather quickly. With that said, I am guided by the time that you want and need. Together, we will find movement in the suffering so that you can live the life that you want.

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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart

and try to love the questions themselves…

Don’t search for the answers,

which could not be given to you now,

because you would not be able to live them.

And the point is to live everything.

Live the questions now.

Perhaps then, someday far in the future,

you will gradually, without even noticing it,

live your way into the answer.

 

-Rainer Maria Rilke

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
 
 A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
 
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
 
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
 
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent 
as a guide from beyond. 
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
 
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
 
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—-
Over and over announcing your place in the family of things. 
Jennifer Sederholm, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW#25578
1955 Cleveland Ave. Suite 201, Santa Rosa, CA
Phone:
707-387-0304
Email:
jennifersederholm@gmail.com