Notice and name the longing.

We start with what's present. A feeling in the body. A pattern you keep bumping into. A want you've learned not to say out loud. We slow down and get curious about it rather than moving past it.

Make room for what it's carrying.

Longing doesn't arrive alone. There's often grief underneath it. For what hasn't happened, for what you've needed and not received, for a version of yourself you lost touch with somewhere along the way. We make room for that. We don't rush past it toward solutions. And then we ask: what does this longing actually want?

Create an experience that gives it what it wants.

This is where our work gets creative. Through visualization, through role play, through breath, through giving yourself permission, we practice getting you what you want in our session. Not as a concept. As an experience. Sometimes I may be involved in you receiving what you need. Sometimes what's most powerful is giving it to yourself, with me as witness. And new stories create new possibilities in your relationship to yourself and others outside of our sessions.

Disappointment is part of the work.

Disappointment will show up here too. In our sessions, between us. That's not a problem to fix. It's an opportunity to practice exactly what we're building toward. Naming it, staying connected through it, and discovering that the relationship can hold it.