 Kerry@therapytoronto.ca St. Clair-Dufferin |
Kerry Gordon Ph.D., Clinical Member OSP
And you may say to yourself this is not my beautiful life. There are times in our lives when we all need help. We may be struggling in relationship with our partner, parents, family or friends, we may be feeling depressed, angry, disappointed or alone, or we may find our careers derailed or limited and realize how stuck and frustrated we feel in our seeming inability to achieve our goals and fulfill our potential. It is in these times of crisis, when all our old strategies for managing our lives and relationships just don’t seem to be working anymore, that psychotherapy can be most effective. Through the psychotherapeutic process I help my clients re-frame their experience of crisis and understand that, despite the pain and uncertainty, crisis provides a rare opportunity to discover a new sense of purpose and meaning in their lives. Most of us are so busy dealing with the details of our life that we lose touch with its flow as an unfolding story. Caught in the depths of our pain and suffering we begin to feel that our story is fatefully imposed and that our thoughts, feelings and actions don’t really have much impact. In a word, we feel trapped. No matter what we do, whether regarding our self image, our relationships, or career, we continually seem to get the same unsatisfactory results. But by becoming aware that it is our habitual patterns of belief and behavior that shape our life story we are able to shift from being a mere character to the author. In this new authorial role we are empowered to fully realize our life and relationships according to what is authentic and meaningful for us. This is not to say that the world changes according to our thinking. The world is the world and exists as it is regardless of our desire that it change. But what matters is that while we can’t change the world, we can change our relationship to it and the way we experience it. This is at the core of my approach to psychotherapy. That by seeing our suffering as an expression of our life as it actually is and by understanding that it is our beliefs and behaviors that trap us in our suffering, we awaken to choice. By exercising choice we begin to transform our beliefs and lo and behold our life and relationships transform as well. This is not an easy path but working from within my therapeutic perspective, one that embraces compassion, respect, and care it is possible to discover the richness and depth that we are all searching for in our life and relationships. As a therapist in practice for more than 17 years, I am deeply committed to the transformative, healing power of psychotherapy. Independent research clearly demonstrates that psychotherapy works. As a former president of the Ontario Society for Psychotherapists and a former board member of the Ontario Coalition of Mental Health Professionals I have worked with many of my colleagues over the years to get this message out to the public. If you are struggling with relationship or personal issues that are making it difficult for you to experience your life with joy and passion, please give me a call. A simple conversation on the telephone can mark the beginning of positive, healing change. For more on my professional and personal background as well as my working style and philosophy click here. My office is located at Dufferin and St. Clair with easy access by TTC and free parking for those driving. Here's my map.Please feel free to contact me by e-mail for an initial consultation where we can meet and see if there is a good fit for continuing work. I look forward to speaking with you. |
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