Gloria Dahlquist, LMFT
Licensed Marital & Family Therapist
Calif. Lic. # 31042, Arizona Lic. # 15546
In private practice since 1994
Free 20-minute consultation (phone)
949 244 3674
The therapy process: The beginning
You show up, willing to honestly explore and narrate your life experience with me. I am an artful and focused listener, firmly providing you with a reliable, safe place for your therapy process. Together, we establish our alliance. Your trust with my trust. You set goals.
The middle
Talking out your story with me brings insight. Links and connections are made to emotions that want and need to be freed. You give yourself permission to feel and express the validity of all your parts. A natural process of growth unfolds, safely and at a pace you determine for yourself.
The ending
Next, your therapy focuses on making new choices about how to be with yourself and others. You learn new ways of coping with every day life. With my support of your healthy self, you become empowered to implement this new self-knowledge and create your future life narrative. You experience graceful moments of growth and change you might not even have yet dreamed.
Finally, we bid one another goodbye as you take up a life path far more rewarding than before!
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing or that;
but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
How Therapy Works
