Empowering, Embodied Therapy

Calmness, steady motivation, and trust can seem impossible when life's transitions feel like waves of hopelessness, being on guard or both.

When your survival instincts take over, it makes sense you could be carrying the weight and exhaustion of protecting yourself by bracing yourself or numbing out just to make it through. It can feel out of your control to live in the present when you're getting pulled back into the past or fearing what could happen next. These experiences can meaningfully change how you feel in your own skin -- impacting how you see yourself, your future, and your relationships.

I use psychodynamic approaches to strengthen and bridge your mind, body and experiences.

To make sense of your experience, we can begin by naming what has brought you here and how it feels to be you today. You will be invited to express yourself at a pace that honors your unique strengths, needs, and resources. Since disclosures, especially the details of intense experiences, can be re-triggering, this means sharing first the broad strokes instead of all the details of your story.

We will practice tuning into your body sensations and the alarm bells of your body's stress response. While these responses may have helped to protect or keep you safe, it can be healing to learn how to quiet these experiences, to return to balance when you are safe in the current moment. By deeply listening, discovering, and expressing yourself with awareness of your somatic sensations, emotions and thoughts in the present moment, you'll gain clarity, confidence and connection.

Hi, my name is Anna Kathryn Griffith (she/her).

I believe in the power of therapy as a space where we can hold your past, present and future with respect and compassion. This can look like developing presence, connecting to your body and past experiences, safely exploring and emotionally holding how you got here and where you'd like to go. Together we can balance time between acknowledging and processing your fears, reinforcing your strengths, deepening your resilience, and working towards your hopes. I welcome clients with a variety of identities, ages and stages of change. Whether you are motivated to reach out by a recent loss, transitions as pregnant or postpartum, the echoes of past trauma or a desire to move away from survival mode, we can explore how working together could look and feel.

I look forward to connecting. 

Warmly, Anna Kathryn Griffith, LICSW LCSW

PS Yo brindo terapia en español.

What clients say:

Clients have told me about the helpfulness of giving themself permission to slow down, sitting with their emotions, and noticing their reactions in the moment. Often they share about the relief of finding balance, the readiness to take on new challenges and identify tangible steps to shift how they feel about themselves, the important people in their life and their surroundings.