Joe Futerman
Joe Futerman
(he/him)
I have a Master’s degree in Family Therapy and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with specialization in Depth Psychology. That means I’m going to work both with your responses to the external system that you live in and with the deep psychological parts of you that go back to your childhood. I am also certified in Hypnosis and have several years of meditation and mindfulness training, and also use those perspectives to help my clients. Therapy often looks like two people talking together. In truth, it is so much more, it is the chance to find new and different ways to feel, see, hear, the substance of our lives.
Get to know me
In our first session together, here's what you can expect
In our first session we need to set the expectations and patterns and understandings that will guide our work together. Mostly we need to get a sense of each other how we interact and what feels comfortable. One thing that you will immediately learn is that if anything I say or suggest feels wrong or inaccurate I want you to tell me. As a therapist I'm just a person and I make mistakes like everybody else. If you don't correct me then I will not know how to help you in the best ways possible. Of course, during our first session I will also ask to give me more detail about the problem that has brought you into therapy and how it affects your life. Finally, I will try to make sure that you know that all of your questions are always welcomed. This is your therapy and though I will offer guidance, you are the one who has the final decision about what needs to be changed or grown to build the life you want.
The biggest strengths that I bring into our sessions
I believe that my greatest strengths are my curiosity, creativity and care. Curiosity because the human mind is an amazing mystery that is capable of practically anything. Creativity because no one approach or system of thought fits anyone. It is always necessary to be open to new approaches, understandings and combinations of older thought to help clients grow and change. Care because each and every person matters as they are. It is their vision and their feelings about their world that are most important factors in building the life they want. And it is my job to care about those visions and feelings and assist them in this job of creating their world.
The clients I'm best positioned to serve
I believe that being a human being in the 21st century is challenging, and that the best of us need help on our worst days. When the help that we need is not about the external circumstances, but instead is about the way we see, hear, feel, or understand our world, that is the point when a psychotherapist can be helpful. I also believe that you are the key to your emotional, psychological, and spiritual healing, and that my job is to provide you with the tools necessary to do that healing. However, please remember that therapy is a co-creative process that requires us each to do our part to be effective. I will pull from all of my experience and knowledge to create the most powerful and effective treatment for your problems. Your job will be to use your courage, honesty and inherent strengths to do the work, to create a future with more possibility, happiness, and peace for yourself.
About Joe Futerman
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Psychodynamic
I have worked with a Psychodynamic approach since I began to practice psychotherapy. I have found that for most clients it is not the things they know, understand, and can control that are their problems. It is those things that are out of their conscious control that we need help with. Psychodynamic therapy get's right to center of these issues by working directly with the unconscious portions of our mind. It is my experience that by working with my clients in a profoundly deep, caring, and focused way together we can find the understandings that will bring lasting change to their lives.
Jungian
I was fully trained Jungian theory and practice in my graduate work. I have used the Jungian/analytic perspective as a central pillar of my work since 2006. Jungian work considers not just what is happening individually but the person's place in the larger realities of life. Focusing on the broader picture of human history and experience a Jungian perspective allows me to help my clients see themselves in light not only of the mind but also as physical and spiritual beings whose relationship to life serves not only themselves but the whole of humanity as well.
Existential
To be human is to know that there are truths that are beyond our capacity to change. Coming into contact with these realities, the need for meaning, the fact of loneliness, and death are central to how we live life. The existential approach to therapy provides a method to explore these issues, understand them and put them into resourceful perspective in our lives.