Discovering Your Authentic Self
Get to Know All the Parts of Who You Are

October 18, 2022 - April 4, 2023
Tuesdays at 6:00-7:00pm PT / 9:00-10:00pm ET 
Open to NY, CA, NJ and FL residents

This group will help you discover and honor all of the parts of who you are – the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. It is about understanding where a part of you came from, what the purpose of it once was, and how it might be helping or hurting you in the present. You will gain a deeper understanding of yourself that will help you make decisions that are in alignment with the life you truly want. You will be going on this journey of self-exploration with other people who are also trying to deepen their understanding of themselves. You will use each other's life stories to help gain clarity of who you are.

What is Part Integration and Identification?
In our approach to therapy, which we refer to as Part Identification and Integration, we use successful techniques that allow clients to deeply understand the complexities of their minds, as well as make psychodynamic and CBT modalities more meaningful and user-friendly to shift thinking and improve overall functioning. 

You begin by identifying the parts of you that have been helpful at different stages in life and that allowed you to fulfill the many roles required throughout your childhood and adulthood. When you explore these parts, you can identify which are still helpful and what parts may need to be less active in your present life. You also have the opportunity to grow and create and new parts that would be helpful.

Eventually, through working with your parts over time, the goal is to integrate the parts so that the individual parts become fluid, flowing together in an intricate dance to come forward or move aside as needed so that the individual may lead an authentic, fulfilling, and connected life. 
The Hawk Eye
Example of a Protective Part
Many people's parts can serve similar functions, such as protection. However, a part that develops to protect you is unique based on your experiences in different settings.

The example of the Hawk Eye highlights a part that is intended to protect but instead causes negative thoughts and feelings. Imagine there was a little girl with an older sibling who always outperformed her. To move through childhood securely and keep her ego intact, she created the Hawk Eye.

As she got older, The Hawk Eye followed her to work, social settings and even when she was alone in the mirror. Through the course of therapy, she was able to gain awareness of when Hawk Eye was around causing her confidence to dwindle. She learned to consciously step away from this and view herself through a part of her that is more aligned with her values - The Wiser Self.
Grandma Louise
Example of a Healing Part
When a person experiences something traumatic in their childhood that activates their fight or flight response, their brain learns to be triggered by things that remind the person of this past traumatic experience.

As adults, part of healing is granting ourselves what we may not have been provided enough of as children - empathy, compassion, validation and patience. If there is still healing to do, you can develop a part in therapy that allows you to be the loving parent that you needed.

Grandma Louise is an example of what a protective part might look like.