Kyle Petricek (he/him)

We've all heard it, The Body Keeps the Score. The body is the history book of your life, and listening to the stories that it holds is critical. Using your body to process those stories is the logical next step. I invite clients to engage their bodies by first building awareness and secondly bringing a playful curiosity to their embodied experience.

I work from a psychodynamic lens, meaning I use our relationship to serve as a therapeutic tool for your healing. Together we will be curious about how our relationship mirrors your relationship with yourself and the other intimate relationships in your life. By using the "here and now" we can bring real-time understanding to what you experience in other relationships where there isn't always space to process what is happening as it is happening.

We are relational beings. We are both formed, healed, and wounded in relationships. Current neurobiology suggests that the therapeutic relationship is ~the~ most important component in positive therapeutic outcomes. This is why the relationship is my primary focus in therapy because it is a powerful tool for you to understand your relationship with yourself and others.

It can be said that anxiety is a maladaptive relationship with the future. What does that mean exactly? It means we are struggling to be in the present and to think clearly about the future. Anxiety can be sneaky. That is why the first step is learning to recognize it. When we bring a gentle awareness to our anxieties we can begin to address them. The goal isn't to be rid of the anxieties but to listen to them and learn to greet them with a new awareness and so that they can be cared for.

Depression is like a damp coldness that slowly creeps up the back of your leg and pulls you into a surprising slumber. Often depression looks like avoidance quiet stillness other times it can look like irritability, anger, even rage. Depression is a symptom of something else that is off. Depression is a sign that something has been hurting too much for too long and our body is trying to reduce the pain by becoming numb to it. Treating depression requires gentle curiosity and support.

It can be said that anxiety is a maladaptive relationship with the future. What does that mean exactly? It means we are struggling to be in the present and to think clearly about the future. Anxiety can be sneaky. That is why the first step is learning to recognize it. When we bring a gentle awareness to our anxieties we can begin to address them. The goal isn't to be rid of the anxieties but to listen to them and learn to greet them with a new awareness and so that they can be cared for.

It can be said that anxiety is a maladaptive relationship with the future. What does that mean exactly? It means we are struggling to be in the present and to think clearly about the future. Anxiety can be sneaky. That is why the first step is learning to recognize it. When we bring a gentle awareness to our anxieties we can begin to address them. The goal isn't to be rid of the anxieties but to listen to them and learn to greet them with a new awareness and so that they can be cared for.

We are relational beings. Our greatest joys and sufferings are in our most intimate relationships. Often we get so tangled in these relationships it can be difficult to think, to know what is yours and what is theirs. Having a third party support you individually or as a couple can be a valuable tool when trying to understand the old and frustrating patterns that are not working for you anymore. I'd be glad to support you as you work to find a new way in a familiar relationship.