Reconstructing Something Truer

As I’ve begun to work with clients, I’ve come to see how the term “deconstruction” is a helpful way to understand the healing work my clients are engaged in. Therapy can help deconstruct the false self/selves that many have constructed in order to survive or feel safe. While the past can’t be undone, it can be better understood, learned from so that it no longer controls us. My work with clients often involves the deconstruction of survival strategies, negative thinking, and behavior patterns that may have once served to protect them in important ways, but are now no longer needed. During this process, we bless those strategies, and the reasons they were needed, and then work to reconstruct new ways of being and relating that are more true to who they are, who they were created to be, and who they are becoming.

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If you’d like to explore deconstructing some of your own ways of being in the world, reach out for free consultation or consider joining a story group.