Mountain Path LLC
Why Mountain Path?
There’s a metaphor from the main therapy modality I use (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [ACT]), about mountains.
"It’s like you’re in the process of climbing up a big mountain that has lots of dangerous places on it. My job is to watch out for you and shout out directions if I can see places you might slip or hurt yourself. But I’m not able to do this because I’m standing at the top of your mountain, looking down at you. If I’m able to help you climb your mountain, it’s because I’m on my own mountain, just across a valley. I don’t have to know anything about exactly what it feels like to climb your mountain to see where you are about to step, and what might be a better path for you to take."
Hayes, S. C., Strosahl, K., & Wilson, K. G. (1999). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An experiential approach to behaviuor change. New York: Guilford Press.
What does this mean to me?
I am here to witness your experience and offer a different perspective. This does not mean I am some sort of expert who has everything figured out, I am on my own mountain. What I can do is offer you a safe space to process your experience and some tools to help you find your way. Your way. Not what I or anyone else thinks you should do.