Core values provide a weave that sustains the fabric of a purposeful and effective analysis.
psychAmerica traces three main strands: Creativity, Distinction and Integrity.
Covington Moonstruck Sapphire An Upholstery Fabric psychAmerica creatively integrates Transactional Analysis and contemporary Psychoanalysis to offer you a unique and powerful approach. The in-depth practice we provide represents the most worthwhile psychotherapeutic goal; the integration of a past that has been left behind in order to allow for a freer destiny.
Tate Modern I, London, UK (2016)
psychAmerica prizes the plurality of individual values and ways of life in contrast to many forms of counseling that instead (in)tend to instill an ideal conformity. To ‘be all you can be’ means being that which we do not always wish to admit, rather than conforming to a pretense defined by others by hiding who we are.
Tate Modern II, London, UK (2016) psychAmerica embodies the highest ethical values regarding the complexities of autonomy and homonymy at play at the heart of each of us. Engaging with legal restrictions, those of licensing and other institutions, psychAmerica strives to prioritize your needs and uphold inconvenient truths.
Integration is not the same as blending. Integration requires that we maintain elements of our differentiated selves while also promoting our linkage. (Daniel Siegel, 2012)
Unanimity of opinion is a very ominous phenomenon, and one characteristic of our modern mass age. It destroys social and personal life, which is based on the fact that we are different by nature and by conviction. To hold different opinions and to be aware that other people think differently on the same issue shields us from that Godlike certainty which stops all discussion and reduces social relationships to those of an ant heap. (Hannah Arendt, 1948).
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin Luther King, 1963).