Your Healing Begins … with the experience of unconditional self-acceptance

I’m Marcella Bixler, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor.  I believe that offering you the opportunity to be accepted and heard is the first step in healing. This experience then gives you the space to learn self-acceptance, which is so important in allowing yourself to make the changes you are seeking. From that place of unconditional acceptance, you can then effectively make change. That’s when we will bring in specific skills to change the way that you experience the problems in your life, transforming them from overwhelming obstacles to just potholes along the way.  

A  lot of folks expect that therapy is a process in which you identify all that is wrong with you and work to fix it. I would encourage you to see therapy in another way. Instead, let’s identify all the ways in which you are already ok and functioning well, and bring in those strengths and qualities to the areas of your current life in which you are currently struggling.  It starts with the stories that you tell yourself about who you are and what you can accomplish.

 

     I have an addictive personality.

People always leave me. 

There’s no hope.

I will never be happy because ….

Once you are able to experience those as stories that you are telling yourself, you begin the process of getting freed up from them. You are able to get some distance from your belief in what those stories are saying about you and your potential. 

In our work together, we will be re-examining the core beliefs and experiences that are keeping you stuck. We will be doing this by more than just talk. We will be using guided imagery, examinations of your beliefs, practice assignments outside of sessions, and other tools that will help you to explore yourself in a way that helps to free you from the limitations of the past. 

I invite you to join me on this journey. I invite you to give yourself the gift of healing.