WELCOME from Pamela Wampler, MS-LMFT
I believe we were created to be whole, joyful people, each with our own unique personality and purpose. However, many of us, for whatever reasons, have become stunted, stuck, or broken, unable to blossom. If we do inner work, we can heal and grow, allowing our true self to unfold. The poet Galway Kinnell eloquently expresses this process:
The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing....
—From "Saint Francis and the Sow"
For me, psychotherapy ultimately is about healing, growing, unfolding, and becoming. It requires taking responsibilty for one's own well-being, relationships, and growth. It involves learning, taking risks, self-validation and self-confrontation, and the willingness to let go of the familiar (whether thought patterns, ways of expressing oneself, or static views of self and others) and make space for something new. It takes hard, consistent work (inside and outside of therapy sessions) but if you stick with it, you will see results.
In the following pages, you can learn more about my psychotherapy practice: the kinds of clients I see, the problems I address, how I work, my credentials, and how to contact me.
May you truly flower from within.
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