Brion Carlson

Are you feeling stuck between who you are and who you know you were meant to be? I help clients grappling with meaning, mortality, authenticity, and purpose. Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), I specialize in depression, anxieties, and addictions that have these deeper existential roots. I help people struggling with shame, loneliness, heartbreak, aging, illness, grief, and loss of meaning build a life worth living and a Self worth living it. I believe in building new skills. But my ultimate aim is to help you find and liberate your higher Self.

I believe successful therapy involves building new skills and new understandings. I look to DBT for its many practical skills and to ACT for its deeper, existential skills. And I use EMDR and IFS to help you explore and discover new understandings. Weaved together, these approaches are powerful and cover the majority of what therapy has to offer.

I take a well-organized but flexible approach to therapy that's designed to help you get your true needs met. It's like a road trip; I bring the map, and you drive. Our first session will focus on your story and what you hope to accomplish. Don't worry. You don’t need to have everything (or even anything) figured out before coming in. Together, we'll get oriented and set a course. After the first session, most clients leave feeling better understood and with a better sense of how therapy can help.