Collaborative Psychotherapy for Clarity in Dizzying Times
Matthew Bethell, M.A., LMFT
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who offers collaborative and personalized therapy for individuals, couples, and families. I care deeply about helping people develop psychological flexibility so they may build meaningful lives and relationships, even through life's inevitable challenges. I bring a warm, nonjudgemental presence while integrating insights from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) existential psychotherapy, and Interpersonal Neurobiology into our work together.
Individual Therapy
A private and supportive space to contemplate, process, and work towards living in alignment with your values. This is a time for you to be heard. Sessions focus on what you want from therapy, whether it's attending to states of emotional dysregulation and disconnection, exploring patterns of thinking, navigating complexities in your relationships, or adapting to change.
Couples Therapy
A structured and safe environment for couples to explore the underlying emotions and dynamics that influence their relationship. With an attachment-based focus, this mode of therapy can encourage open dialogue to foster a deeper and nuanced understanding of each other's perspectives, Through guided discussions, couples can work through conflicts and reconnect on an emotional level to strengthen their bond.
Family Therapy
Therapy focused on illuminating processes within the family system. Family therapy provides an opportunity to examine generational patterns of interaction and that effect all within the system. Members of the family may generate new insights that better enable them heal attachment wounds, to engage openly and attentively, use perspective taking skills, and maintain developmentally appropriate boundaries and expectations.
Many seek psychotherapy striving to lead fulfilling lives—not merely to manage the next wave of distress. Intuitively, we think turning away from pain and boredom will help. We work admirably at thinking more rationally and looking on the bright side, and meet the paradox: effort, affirmations, and distractions can magnify the suffering they were meant to relieve. We can know this and still lose sight of it. That is the default mode. The shift is when we take time to notice what appears in consciousness—chatter, anxiety, tension—before getting swept up in the belief that these are problems to be fixed, or that we need to escape from them. Then other possibilities show up. There is less need to compare our lives to what we think they should be. We let go of the silent goal of controlling others and trying to ensure outcomes. There is honesty with what is. Pain and suffering are not the same. Your actions can represent what you stand for, even when life hurts. I would be glad to walk with you in that work.
-Matthew
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Clovis, CA 93612
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