Holding Space for Yourself
Psychotherapy for those who want to understand themselves and live with intention.
A life can be full & still feel far away
There’s a sadness buried inside the recognition that you may have built a beautiful life, surrounded by people you love, and feel so occupied with keeping it all moving that there is little room left to experience it.
It makes sense that we find ourselves here. We live in a culture that tells us, both subtly and boldly, that we are not enough. Work harder. Achieve more. Become more disciplined. Be more productive. Keep going. Eventually, it can become difficult to imagine another way of being.
Maybe you are carrying too much and need help deciding what you can put down. Maybe you need to practice sharing responsibility so that time away can actually feel like time away. Maybe there are patterns you want to understand, habits you want to develop, or skills that would help you become more like the person you want to be.
Psychotherapy gives us room to understand the difference between something being wrong with us and something in our lives needing our attention.
That’s the work we do here.
We all inherit a map
Long before we consciously decide who we want to be, we begin learning how the world works. What love looks like. What success requires. Who is safe. What is expected. Who we are expected to become.
Life experiences add to our maps. Psychotherapy gives us somewhere to slow down and become curious about the map we’ve been using.
Hi, I’m Charla
As a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in Indianapolis, I’m interested in what makes you you: how you think, what you notice, what you protect, what you long for, what you have inherited, and what you may be ready to do differently.
I bring training, research, and clinical perspective. You bring your story. Our work is to think together.
If you are curious about what might become possible with more room to understand yourself, we can start there.