CONNECT WITH YOUR TRUE SELF
Depth psychotherapy, grounded in relationship, supporting fundamental growth.
Recurrent emotional pain is calling us to know something essential in ourselves that we are having difficulty making contact with. That difficulty comes from ingrained patterns of dissociation that we learned in order to preserve connection. In formative times, certain feelings were unsafe for us to express and we learned to hide these parts from others and even from ourselves. That was once a survival strategy, but now deprives us of ease, energy, and belonging. In psychodynamic psychotherapy, we address suffering through growth. A relationship of profound attunement supports us to become aware of difficult and hidden states. Together, we listen to moods, beliefs, associations, fantasies, memories, dreams, and the body. We discover in each painful or confusing part of ourselves something important about who we are and what is possible. Expanding our awareness and discovering new meanings empowers us to transform fundamental patterns and realize a new freedom and peace.
About me
I am interested in practices of human potential, from psychological, spiritual, and somatic paths.
My training includes post-graduate coursework and supervision with the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the Wright Institute, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford.
I also bring a background in Zen Buddhism, which inspires my focus on mindfulness and presence in psychotherapy. I appreciate somatic practices as an important aspect of transformation, and attend to embodiment in therapy.
Studying great thinkers in the fields of psychoanalysis and critical social theory has been formative for me, and I believe that great thinking can be empowering. I acknowledge the pervasive impacts of severed indigeneity and community, capitalism, and climate crisis.
I hold psychotherapy as an emancipatory practice.
Why Psychodynamic?
Based on the principles of psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy is a deep and intensive form of psychotherapy that facilitates essential personal growth.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy supports clients to develop fundamental capacities of self that have been under-nurtured, through a carefully attuned therapeutic relationship that closely attends to the client’s experiences and needs. The shared experience and reflective dialogue of therapy allows the client to bring the unknown that is determining their life into awareness and transformation.
Research shows that psychodynamic therapy provides longer-lasting and broader benefits than solution-oriented therapies, with improvements that continue after treatment ends and extend beyond symptom relief to include greater emotional balance, stronger relationships, and a clearer sense of purpose and meaning.
Greg Hertz is a Professional Counselor Associate
supervised by Kelly Reams, LCSW and Stephen Purcell, MD.
