Appreciating the still joy of understanding amidst a cultural compression of our time and attention.
Existential Therapy for Seattle, Poulsbo and North Kitsap County
If you are interested in working together, please click here to find out more about the process. I know it can be difficult to find the right care, so I appreciate your effort to make it this far and your patience with me as I respond to your message. I do my best to be prompt, transparent and to ease your effort to connect.
I am Axel, a thoughtful and creative person who gravitated to counseling after a career designing safe structures to help meet our community’s need for housing. I wish health was as easy as building better structures, and I still do believe that is part of the way forward. In therapy for instance, there are structured exercises and treatments to draw from that really work in the right situation. Emotions focused, somatic and relational techniques can help provide some of that structure in my practice. There are also some more subtle dimensions of our existence and it is healthy to embrace those as well. In life and in practice as a therapist, I try to share the awe I feel at the way these rigid and gentle aspects intertwine. Click here to learn more!
The Still Joy of Understanding
Actively participating in the creation of meaning with my clients, I encounter moments that hold stillness, joy and understanding. The moments are not necessarily quiet, but often are. Sometimes they feel warm, and other times they vanish as soon as I notice them. They are not even necessarily still, though in those moments of understanding, I often notice something restless relax. I hope to share these moments with you, and to accompany you as we create and integrate them into our sessions and lives.
Countless little things support me to better attend to what is most important in our sessions. Please check out my resources page, where I do my best to share some of those things with you!
