Our work is primarily collaborative, one in which, together, we sort out a way through. For some, this involves a short-term, solution-oriented approach with more practical interventions and support. For others, our work takes more time. As we have been hurt in relationship, we are also mended in relationship, and the therapeutic relationship provides a safe context for repair. Our work is not to erase what has been done, but to acknowledge and begin to find new ways of coping with it as well as new ways of relating that can interrupt its repetition in your life. In both approaches, you are the expert on you, and my role is to hold your story – to bear your struggle with you – with kindness, and with the hope that you will not bear it alone.