Amanda Hare

I approach psychotherapy from a wellness and empowerment model that assumes we all have basic goodness and tend towards health rather than dysfunction. I believe we have the answers to our problems inside of us. My therapeutic intention is to support you in the process of discovering your own inner wisdom.  My client-centered therapeutic work emphasizes personal reflection, integration and skill building, laying the foundation for fulfilling relationships with self and other. Through an integrated body/mind/spirit approach, I will assist you in accessing the natural intelligence of your body to rediscover your birthright of balance and health. My goal for this process is heart-centered, creative inquiry. As clarity naturally emerges, I welcome feedback about your needs in the moment, allowing our collaborative relationship to grow. I see life as a web of relationships. I am guided by the vision of healthy individuals creating safe and nourishing communities. We all have a unique contribution to make. I trust that a personal healing journey, once begun, will ripple out into the world. INFLUENCES: Attachment Theory is a pillar in my work. I find that understanding how we adapted to our early childhood environment by forming our particular Attachment Styles, is a game changer for skillfully navigating our adult relationships and developing Secure Attachment. My practice is strongly Trauma-Informed and I love to help my clients befriend their nervous systems by sharing insights from the Polyvagal Theory.  I was trained as a Family Systems Therapist and in my work with individual clients, I have come to see that each of us has a system of Parts inside of us. I use the Internal Family System (IFS) parts model. Many of us were wounded in childhood. Adaptive parts developed to protect the parts that were hurt most, and they did it with amazing intelligence and grit! Unfortunately, the adaptive parts are the ones that create the most problems in our lives as adults. Much of my work with clients is focused on developing collaborative and compassionate relationships with our inner system of parts strengthening what I refer to as the Resourced Adult or Self in order to fully claim our personal authority, live from our values, and contribute to our communities. *You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” estimating how much therapy will cost. Under the No Surprises Act, we must provide you with an estimate of the charges for the services we provide.