Sean Herberts

Sometimes life can feel beyond hard; it can feel impossible. For me, this story took shape as a dark tunnel with no visible light at the end. It looked like mourning an old life that I had to release while learning how to move forward in the dark, and deciding what it meant to create a life worth living under unexpected circumstances.

I read a book once where emotion was described as an equation that relied on the balance between expectations and perception. When I received a chronic illness diagnosis and every tool in my inventory failed to improve my situation, when I realized that my limitations weren’t temporary but permanent, my expectations shattered. My perceptions were shaped by incredible depths of pain in a pit of hopelessness.

The challenges that end chapters and shatter expectations or distort our perceptions can take many shapes: health shifts, lost relationships, financial difficulties, and cycles of learned behavior culminating to breaking points. Many of us can find ourselves in situations where the skills and tools that kept us safe for a lifetime no longer work, or are simply not enough. We find ourselves facing circumstances that aren’t fair, aren’t our fault, feel out of our control, and/or feel like too much. It can feel like life is a thing that is happening to us, and we don’t know what to do with it.

I utilize an integrative approach and work collaboratively with clients to develop goal-oriented, individualized plans that focus on exploring core causes of behavior and thinking, psychoeducation, skill development, and finding a path forward built on acceptance, change, and honoring their many parts – a path in which clients reclaim the pen of their lived story and begin happening to life rather than life simply happening to them.

Clients feel listened to and supported in a safe, caring environment as they release burdens, tend to wounds, forge new paths, and cultivate a broadened toolset that reflects evidence-based practices and their own inner wisdom.