Greg Hertz

My Approach to Helping

Why do we have recurrent emotional pain? Because there’s something we need to know and resolve that we are having difficulty being in contact with. That difficulty comes from ingrained patterns of dissociation that we learned in order to preserve connection. In formative times, certain feelings were unsafe for us to express and we learned to hide these parts from others and even from ourselves. That was once a survival strategy, but now deprives us of ease, energy, and belonging.

My Approach to Helping

In psychodynamic psychotherapy, we address suffering through growth. A relationship of profound attunement supports us to become aware of difficult and hidden states. Together, we listen to moods, beliefs, associations, fantasies, memories, dreams, and the body. We discover in each painful or confusing element something important about who we are and what is possible. Expanding our awareness and discovering new meanings empowers us to transform fundamental patterns and realize a new freedom and peace.