Trisha Seawell
I am a Licensed New York State Marriage and Family Therapist. I utilize Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in therapy as well as other modalities. ACT Therapy focuses on increasing mindfulness skills that help her patients recognize and address challenges that have occurred due to attempts at suppressing, managing, or trying to control one’s emotional experiences. Our work together relies on a safe space, free of judgment, we will find positive change for whatever you desire in your life. My focus on attachment when working with families and couples enables us to work towards repairing interpersonal ruptures and making meaning in your moments. Therapy allows us to focus on changing the ways the couple views/evaluates their relationship. So much of our suffering comes from our beliefs. We suffer when we hold fast and true to an ideal of our “self”. We will do anything to protect our belief around this “self”. Often to protect this “self” we run away from threats to those beliefs and feelings of uncomfortability. In order to find the remedy for our suffering we have to stop avoiding the source. Understanding the source allows us to ease the pain and transform it into compassion.