Psychotherapy for people becoming more of themselves.
You may have built a life that looks successful from the outside, yet still find yourself questioning who you are within it.
Therapy is not an indication that something is wrong with you. Therapy offers a place to slow down, understand the patterns and expectations that have shaped you, and explore what becomes possible when you no longer have to organize your life around who you were expected to be.
You can talk to AI.
But AI cannot know you.
You can ask AI what your partner meant. You can describe an argument and receive a thoughtful analysis. You can find explanations for your feelings, strategies for your relationship, and endless information about yourself… and sometimes that’s useful.
But understanding yourself is different from finding an answer.
Psychotherapy offers something AI cannot: a relationship with another person who can come to know you over time. Together, we can pay attention not only to what you think and say, but to the patterns that emerge in your relationships, the things that are difficult to see on your own, and the places where insight alone has not been enough to create change.
AI can help you think about yourself.
Psychotherapy can help you know more about yourself.
Charla Yearwood, LCSW
Many of us become remarkably good at adapting. We learn to be successful, responsible, capable, independent, agreeable, exceptional. Those adaptations can serve us well. But sometimes the ways we learned to belong begin to make it difficult to know what we actually want, need, or feel.
My work is grounded in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and informed by a deep interest in the ways our inner lives are shaped by the social worlds around us. I don't believe therapy is about helping you become a better version of the person everyone else needs you to be. I'm interested in helping you understand who you've had to become—and creating enough space to discover who you might become next.
What is psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy provides a space to think carefully about who you are, ask meaningful questions, and develop a deeper understanding of yourself with someone trained to listen closely and help you see what may be difficult to recognize on your own.
a place to talk
Therapy begins with conversation. You bring what’s happening in your life - the things that are difficult, confusing, painful, or hard to make sense of. There’s no expectation that you arrive with everything figured out.
a place to understand
We look beyond the immediate problem to consider the patterns, relationships, experiences, and beliefs that shape how you understand yourself and move through the world.
a relationship that matters
Psychodynamic therapy pays close attention to relationships, including the one between the therapist and the client. This can offer meaningful insight into patterns that may otherwise be difficult to recognize.
a deeper kind of change
The goal is not to become a different person to perform your life better. It is to develop a deeper understanding of yourself so that you have more freedom in how you respond, relate, and move through the world.