Jordan Muzquiz

You’ve probably sat across from a therapist who needed you to perform healing, who wanted you to cry, to breathe, to be positive, to transform on schedule. I don’t do that. I listen for the essence of things, not just the literal results of things. I hear the emotion inside the behavior. That thing you do — the checking, the rage, the shutting down — it’s not your enemy. It needs space, not annihilation. The diagnosis isn’t the thing! It’s what the thing does when it is cornered.

Same with the "tangents" that come to your mind in session. They are not random. There is a reason your stream of consciousness is bringing that story in at that time. It holds the metaphor for the very pattern we're working with. My skill is in noticing those patterns. My style is to get playfully curious about how and why they are showing up. 

This means no predetermined transformative agenda. No need to traumatize you by constantly going back through childhood to get somewhere. Not forcing healing. That little vignette that seems insignificant? It holds the whole story if we're listening close enough. And I am.

Sexual Abuse