Hi, I’m Mindy Kanewske. I invite you spend a little time reading through my offerings and specialities. Therapy is a vulnerable experience but it doesn't have to be scary and overwhelming. Good therapy can bring many deep changes in how you live within yourself and within the world, and it’s not always the easiest step to take for yourself. In being here right now, you are already accessing your own inner capacity for self-discovery and change. For a lot of us, we need help in the beginning to learn how to access this internal ability that is already within us. Therapy can provide a compassionate, safe and objective container to help you connect deeper to your internal experiences and gain the tools to live life in a way that feels authentic and expansive. Welcome.
How can therapy help?
Have you tried therapy approaches like talk therapy or CBT and feel like you have only gotten benefits up to a certain point? My approach is different than talk therapy and may be a good fit for you. Difficulties like consistent anxiety, depression, relationship issues and trouble feeling or expressing emotions are usually all connected to deeper, core experiences that were hard to experience when they happened. I want to help my clients find resolution to what they struggle with, not temporary relief. Resolution is possible! At times resolution comes through repairing past or present wounds that impact your life and relationships. You may need help resolving traumatic experiences that you "re-live" over and over causing you great distress. Change may come by resolving barriers or behaviors that continue to get in the way of how you want to live. And it can simply be having a present witness who can sit with you to help you feel and process what is painful in your life.
The process of reaching resolution in therapy is unique for everyone. That said, experiences get "stuck" in the same neurobiological way in everyone's central nervous system: through body sensations, emotional flooding or shut down, negative self judgements and ways of coping through protective responses. For many of us the change we desire to feel in our lives can be overwhelming and complex in the beginning. This is very common because life experiences touch one another and can feel messy. It's also common to develop defense responses that help us disconnect from difficult feelings which can provide relief in the short term but is not true resolution. We end up experiencing the same stuff coming back up, sometimes over and over again. You may be thinking, "Okay Mindy, this sounds like a lot, so how do we start?"
We start off by getting curious. We notice together what happens for you when we slow down an experience in a session. When you are more present with an experience, you start to notice what's happening in your body and how you respond when certain emotions arise. Subconscious beliefs are given a chance to become more conscious. You also start to learn what type of protections have been created to protect you from feeling difficult emotional or physical experiences. Don't worry, we pace the work to your tolerance. We go as slow as your system needs. As you stay safely present with your experience, you can develop a different internal relationship within yourself. Emotional resilience builds, the body can release stuck stress responses and your beliefs about yourself and the world can change as new adaptive meaning is created. This is the difference between temporary relief and true resolution.
Please take a moment and read more about me and how I work. I also offer a free 20-minute phone consultation so we can find out if we would be a good fit. You can contact me by email at mindy.kanewske@gmail.comor by phone at 512-934-0449.
I offer in-person sessions at my office in Austin, TX. I offer telehealth sessions for folks residing in Texas and New Mexico.