Counseling and Psychotherapy for Individuals
Nora Taylor, MA, RP
Welcome
Most of us at some point in our lives need someone to talk to and someone to listen to us, someone that can provide us with a safe place to just be, a sanctuary that allows us to be with our feelings, to get in touch with our needs and our hearts. Whether it is relationship difficulties, job loss, illness, death of a loved one, addiction or mental health concerns that have brought you to my website, all these life experiences and transitions can tax our ability to cope in healthy ways leaving us stressed, sleepless and overwhelmed while the rest of our lives seemingly unravel.
We are all influenced by things that have happened to us in the past and these experiences can continue to influence us in the present in ways that may not be helpful or may thwart our growth. I believe that once these influences are felt, understood, and integrated in a way that they become part of us, we can develop more resources to move forward in a healthier way.
My Approach
As a therapist I offer a balance between being with you, knowing when to listen and when to offer some support or practical tools to move you forward in life. Learning to be with our feelings and our experiences, to understand them, and express them can give us a new sense of strength with an enhanced capacity to be in and meet the world. I am non-directive in my approach which means you bring to the session what is important to you and, though I ask gentle questions in order to clarify…
The Scope of My Practice
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Women and Transformational processes at midlife or before
- Relationship Issues
- Life Transition
My Philosophy
My philosophy is based on my own training which I acquired through a combination of education, seven years in Jungian analysis, subsequent psychodynamic psychotherapy and my experience in the field and in life. In 1991 I moved to California to begin a program in psychology that embraced both the educational aspects of psychological training and the in-depth experiential aspects which included an appreciation of the transpersonal or spiritual aspects of our lives.…
“…and the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”