Elias Protopsaltis
I understand how challenging it is to come to therapy and speak of subjects that can bring about fear, anxiety and feelings of being judged. Therapy is the safest of environments to bring up topics that have brought about great pain or arrest in one’s life. My hope for you is that therapy becomes a useful tool to transform your life into how you envision it to be. Life is too short not to be lived out to its fullest potential. By working with you, I hope to collaborate in a transformation process where life goals come to fruition. As your therapist, I am your advocate and will support you in all areas where challenges, obstacles and barriers are encountered. I hope this message finds you well and instills a sense of hope that anything, if one’s mind is put to it, is possible to change for the better.
First session
Looking to hear what brings you to therapy at this time in your life, learn a little bit about your background and understand what is important for you to explore and engage in therapy.
Strengths
Bring forward a sense of calmness and patience into sessions. Approach with an openness to understanding and provide a safe space where vulnerabilities, traumas and hardships may be addressed and examined to facilitate positive life change and fulfillment.
Ideal clients
Geared towards clients who like to engage in metaphysical discussions as it pertains to purpose, meaning and existence in life. Work well with clients with a propensity towards examining perceptual consciousness and reality, inviting literature, media, news or other academic influences as a means of engaging in session. Well suited with clients who are always questioning what they are presented with.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Identifying automatic thoughts and behaviors that are reflexive and limit growth, fulfillment and understanding challenging and replacing them with newly constructed belief and behavior systems to facilitate positive change and evolution towards life and treatment goals.
Existential
Engage in discussions focusing on life experiences trying to unfold hidden meaning or lessons that may instill a sense of agency, freedom or purpose in navigating through various life stages.
Grief Therapy
Assisting clients that are going through bereavement and processing overwhelming loss, providing a safe and accepting space to mourn and develop coping skills with narratives to enable clients to find new meaning, motivation and appreciation for life.
Jungian
Examining with clients how consciousness interacts with unconsciousness, looking to integrate and allign conscious and unconscious machinations and motivations to identify and achieve a truer self manifesting into more authentic thought, belief and action.
Psychodynamic
Examining mental threads that connect our past to our present in respect to how it molds emotions and actions in present day life. Learning from patterns of emotions and behaviors how there may be unresolved unconscious conflict in regard to relationships and ego functioning during development, later lending itself to adulthood.
Location
Virtual sessions
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Licensed in
- CaliforniaLicense 91698