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"I just want you to see things the way I do!" Recently, I was asked to speak to a diverse audience about my work as a psychotherapist. As I thought over the humanistic, client-centered approach and the various modalities I have been trained in and use in my sessions with clients, my thoughts kept returning to one of my very first clients. He was a seven-year-old first grader in public elementary school. Sporting a buzz cut, his skinny legs were covered in the everyday scrapes

"It's not the sea that drowns you; it's the puddle." I often share with my clients that their decision to enter therapy offers a break in the waves. Therapy provides a safe, calm space where they can free themselves to explore and share their past and current thoughts and beliefs and begin to envision their goals and hopes for their future. In the therapy space, I encourage you to let go of your assumptions of what you “should” be, enabling you to find your inner resilience a