Anastasia Papaconstantinou

Over the past 30 years of having worked as a Psychotherapist with individuals who have dealt with adversity, loss, uprooting, and who have known suffering, I have come to witness human resilience.  It is a humbling experience to accompany the work that individuals and groups engage in, when navigating obstacles that require adaptation and change, when preparing for transitions, and when tending to situations or contingencies that require action and shifts of perspective.  Whether addressing what happened and how we understand a given situation; or, whether con-figuring a response and a resolution to a current difficulty, the whole person is involved as well as their history, culture, and the potential they bring to each session and to the work

The founder, Tracy McManmon, and colleagues who are part of the practice foster an awareness of the requirement for connection in response to fragmentation and alienation from our own nature and from one another. I have joined this collaborative practice intentionally. Supporting the work of learning again to connect with self, with others and with our environment, my commitment is to facilitate such a process. Through such and other examples, I see that the work of Psychotherapy requires an embodied collaborative engagement in the present moment, paying attention to what is being said as well as what is left un-said. 

I have worked with individuals (and groups/communities) who are navigating their Life path dealing with the effects of depression and anxiety. I have worked with individuals encountering a crossroad, coming to discover their sense of identity, some navigating deep waters occasioned by substance addiction. Many look to understand the meaning behind the symptoms they experience.  Many, too, seek to make sense of and to find purpose in their lives, a sense of well-being and self-realization. I bring to this endeavor a Depth Psychological perspective, informed by an Existential-Phenomenological frame of reference.  My studies both navigate and integrate the lived intersection twixt Philosophy and Psychology, and the Liberal Arts and human condition at large, which recognizes that human experience is an embodied experience, a perspective enhanced by my clinical training in Bioenergetic Analysis.