Dr. Stan Gassaway

In my way of working with you, I lay my personal issues aside for our time together and permit my internal responses to fall into a resonance with whatever feelings you might be having. This is commonly called empathy, but psychologists like to call it an "informative empathic response" to describe it better. When I put this together with my formal training in psychology, I am then able to begin to reflect on what might be wrong; to sense "how" you're hurting.

As our work proceeds, the therapy hour becomes an emotionally safe space for you to expand your internal world and begin finally to make sense of difficult feelings. Old compulsions then come to have less power over you as a new way of being emerges.

I maintain my office in a comfortable residential-style setting in southwest Oklahoma City. I generally work in 55-minute sessions once or twice weekly during afternoon and evening hours.