Ms. Mary Ellen Young

People come to therapy with strengths and resources as well as difficulties. Identifying and working from those strengths provides a solid base from which to explore the roots of the problem. If you are feeling it, you are ready to deal with it. In my experience, I have found we are able to hide from our troubles until we can face them and do something about them. The fact that you are on this site says you are getting there, or perhaps you are there.

Therapy is a process of getting to know how you have made sense of the world and how your feelings and behavior have been shaped to meet its demands. If your world has changed, your previous coping mechanisms may now be unsuited to your current life.

My training has included extensive personal therapy that enables me to understand my clients' struggles in a very real way. I work to provide more than an intellectual response to the difficulties you are trying to resolve.