Adult issues/themes I can address:

• For a list of specific issues, please click here.

What therapy can offer for adults

The therapy environment offers you an emotionally safe space to be heard and truly listened to. Through this process, we begin to understand more clearly the struggles that bring you into therapy. I listen from a deeply intuitive place in order to really hear, and help you skillfully decipher the deeper challenges & dilemmas that you have been living with. Our meetings initially will help build trust that allows our work to be a true expression of what is most important to the real you. Over time as we connect more deeply, an opening begins to happen that shores up what has been held back, laid aside or forgotten about. The unclear waters of challenge allow you an opportunity to grow and empower changes to bloom into your life – like the lotus flower which grows in murky waters and becomes an amazing creation.

Therapy offers you the opportunity to deepen and look more closely at your relationship with yourself; the patterns, the judgments, the moods, and the stuck or dead places. In this discovery process, I support and assist you in developing compassion, acceptance, creativity and the capacity to listen more truly to your deepest desires, unfulfilled dreams, and unmet longings. As our work progresses this growing awareness starts to develop a truer to you voice that accompanies you as you begin to make changes in your relationship with yourself, your loved ones, and your world.

Therapy can help you to:

Develop greater self-awareness & self-acceptance. Restore a sense of balance & equilibrium to your life lives.

Resolve issues from the past and move forward in your life.

Understand the patterns and forces that have been governing your relationships with others and become empowered to change them.

Identify core strengths and how to utilize them to promote growth.

Revive a sense of aliveness and lightness commonly lost in crucibles of anxiety, depression, grief, fear, shame, guilt or loss.

Unravel, decode, and release self sabotaging and self defeating behaviors.

Regenerate symptoms of fear, stress, addictions, insecurity and meaninglessness into authority, flow, authenticity, groundedness and what really matters.

Allow your natural rhythms to be known, recognized and cultivated.

Restore trust in the process of life, help transition betrayals into choice, resentments into release of negativity and into personal empowerment.

Turn hurts into deeper feeling and true expression of the heart, which brings the mind more peace.

Experience a greater sense of intimacy with yourself & others, even in the hard places.

Consciously create and discover your true sources of joy, peace, satisfaction, growth, and genuine connection with yourself and the world.

Recognize your intrinsic wisdom, skills, & capacities.

Joanna Intara Zim, M.A.
email: joanna@joannaintarazim.org
San Francisco Office - 2282 Union Street San Francisco, CA ~ 415.923.0481
Sonoma Office - 24 Western Avenue, Suite 313, Petaluma, CA 94952 ~ 707.781.9231