Holly Jurca Psychotherapy

As a difference-affirming psychotherapist, I welcome you in all your particulars and identifiers.

The 'why' behind seeking therapy is unique and contains multitudes. Underneath the specifics, I might use the word disconnection - a disconnection from self, relationships, and/or the wider-world you.

I work from a trauma-informed, non-pathologizing lens. I work from the perspective that you - and all that you bring - are not a problem to be solved. The pain you bring can be used as a site of potential. I view what you bring as information to be seen, held, and collaboratively looked at.

The experience of moving through a world that does not recognize you, accept you, build spaces for you - or even renders you invisible / too visible in ways that can harm is a deep injustice that wound in ways that can feel complex to reckon with.

There can be a heaviness that comes with feeling you cannot exist without judgement or on your own terms. It is tiring to continually advocate for your pronouns, to be misread, assumed, or flattened by a world built with the need to define through neat, known narratives.

I view the therapy room as a reflection of the larger world around us. This is why being anti-oppressive and difference-affirming is so important to me. I continually work to check assumptions and make room for the multiplicities and many shades of experience.

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