Lori Opal, MFT

INdividual therapy

Virtual or in person Sessions available.

When I am asked how my Individual therapy works, my favorite quote is "I love my clients until they have learned to love themselves."  While it sounds simple there is a lot of work required to dismantle the harsh critic so many of us have inside.  I know this journey intimately having come from a Narcissistic parent, and I can promise you it is worth the hard work of facing pain in order to grow into who you really are.  Your relationship with yourself is the most important relationship of your entire life.  How you treat yourself inside will play out via others in your outer life.  Choose Love.  You are so worth it!

The Journey

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began,

though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice~

though the whole house began to tremble

and you felt the old tug at your ankles.

"Mend my life!" each voice cried.

But you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do,

though the wind pried with its stiff fingers

at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible.

It was already late enough, and a wild night,

and the road full of fallen branches and stones,

But little by little, as you left their voices behind,

the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds,

and there was a new voice which you slowly

recognized as your own, that kept you company

as you strode deeper and deeper into the world,

determined to do the only thing you could do~

determined to save the only life you could save.

~Mary Oliver