SEASONAL THERAPY FOR RETURNING CLIENTS
Maybe it’s been a while since we’ve worked together, and something is starting to ask for your attention again. An old pattern is showing up in a new way, life has shifted, or you just have the sense it might be good to have some support while you find your way through what’s here now.
Coming back to therapy doesn’t have to mean beginning another open-ended chapter with no particular ending in sight.
I’ve been experimenting with a different rhythm: returning for a season. We begin by listening for what feels most alive right now — something you’re struggling with, curious about, wanting to understand more deeply, or ready to approach in a different way — and let that become a thread we follow together over the next few months.
A season gives us enough time to settle in, explore, deepen, and integrate, while still having a real beginning and ending.
A seasonal arc might be three or six months, with sessions weekly or every other week, depending on what you’re wanting to work with and how much support feels right. And the work doesn’t have to look the same from session to session. We may talk, slow things down and listen to the body, work with breath or mindfulness, spend time outdoors in nature, create a ceremony to honor the changing seasons or a transition in your life, or—when it’s clinically appropriate—explore expanded states of consciousness to loosen familiar patterns and open new perspectives.
There isn’t a prescribed path through the season; together, we choose what actually serves the work.
The seasons of the year offer a loose rhythm around all of this. Spring may bring questions of emergence and beginning; summer, expansion and expression; autumn, discernment and letting go; winter, rest and turning inward. Your life doesn’t need to fit neatly into those themes. They simply remind us that change has rhythms, that different times ask different things of us, and that therapy can be deep and meaningful without needing to go on forever.
GETTING STARTED
If you’re feeling drawn to come back for a season of work together, send me an email and let me know what’s been coming up for you. We can reconnect, talk a little about what you’re looking for now, and see whether returning to the work feels like a good fit.