Philosophy

We, as humans, are guaranteed to experience difficulty, struggle, and trauma during our lives. After these difficult experiences, we can develop symptoms that can impair our daily lives in a variety of meaningful ways and leave us feeling stuck. We can come to believe that something is wrong with us. Dr. Amanda Gorlick fervently disagrees with this notion of there being anything wrong with us and instead believes that these symptoms we experience can actually serve to protect us in some way. It might not be evident at first how symptoms that can significantly interfere with our lives can also have a protective function, but that is why Dr. Amanda Gorlick is here to help you connect the dots. It is through this process of connecting the dots that processing, healing, and integration occur, freeing us from stuck-ness and re-engaging ourselves in our lives.