Jamie Gutterman

I believe that each of us is innately equipped for healing, growth, and connection with self and others. As a therapist, I’ll collaborate with you to access or rediscover those capacities within yourself. Healing and change happens within the context of a secure, responsive, attuned, and caring therapeutic relationship. From that foundation, I will help you to learn to decipher what your body and emotions are communicating to you, approach your emotional experiences with curiosity, and develop new ways of interacting with yourself and others. My counseling style is relational, supportive, collaborative, and gently challenging. I offer a holistic and psychobiological approach, considering the ways that psychological, physical, social, cultural, and spiritual elements impact your life and perspective. As a registered yoga teacher and somatic psychotherapist, I’ll help you learn to use your body and mind as resources in your process of healing and growth. I’m committed to providing socioculturally conscious counseling, meaning that I work to explore intersecting elements of identity and how they play into our therapeutic relationship. It also means that I actively check my own awareness, assumptions, and understanding of our overlapping and diverging identities, that I am open to discussing these elements in the therapeutic setting, and that I participate in additional consultation and training that support my growth as a clinician in these ways. I have intensive, ongoing post-graduate training in Somatic Experiencing, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. Anti-oppression frameworks, racial and gender equity, and feminist theory and ideology inform the foundation of all of my work.