MEET CLAIRE KALALA, LCPAT, LCPC, ATR-BC
Wondering if you'll ever feel different than you do right now?
YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT ALONE
I hear you. You feel stuck. And trying to unravel the emotional ball of yarn that holds you back from claiming what you really want can be unbearable. For so much of your life, others have told you who and how to be. While they describe you as hardworking, passionate, and driven, YOU see what's under the mask: you're overbooked, distracted, burnt-out. You try desperately to keep up with appearances but you feel like the token ______ person in most spaces, and it ends up feeling like you're living in a fog. You want to truly connect with yourself, to understand what's important to you, and to feel really seen by people you care about. You want more out of your life; to wake up in the morning with a sense of meaning and clarity. So many of us, myself included, are on that long, windy road inward. We're trying to build acceptance of the fact that sometimes, in order to have the "more," we actually have to d o l e s s.
Despite what you've heard, therapy isn’t just for those in crisis and it certainly isn't only used by those too weak to manage their stuff; it can be about experiencing real discovery. About making sense of the present (and past), and gaining access to the authenticity and connectedness that has been missing. I help you to look at the systems in your life and to retrace your boundaries, explore and care for the different parts of yourself, and create YOUR unique version of a life well-lived. It's okay not to know. Together, we'll work to lift the veil and step forward.
I’m here to help you decide what it means to be authentically you.
Sit with this a moment - I actually think it’s okay to hit pause. Many of us who live at the intersections tend to run on overdrive, trying to prove that we belong. Along the way, we adopted some strange belief that in order to have value, we have to be perfect...but what does perfect even mean? What does that look like? For a whole bunch of us, it looks like anxiety, overwhelm, and plain old confusion.
Therapy with me looks like getting curious about the internalized messages we have been taught and still carry. My goal is to support you in embracing what you've been told to hide away and in finally getting UNSTUCK. We work on developing a rhythm to our sessions that blends artmaking and talking/reflection (insight-oriented therapy) at a pace and balance that fits you. The parts of you that feel hard to describe in words, are given a voice and a space to speak and be heard.
By setting unique and meaningful goals, we will use both verbal and non-verbal tools to dive deeper into uncovering and understanding the root of whats going on for you; helping to make sense of where you have been, where you are, and to inform where you want to go. Whether through practical strategies for self-advocacy and self-expression, practicing boundary setting, or emotional support, I'm here to help you redefine your identity, on your own terms.