Find Peace and Empowerment Through Therapy

Sometimes what brings us to a place of challenge or of needing help becomes fuel for great transformation in our lives. Through this lens, the symptoms that we experience are inviting us to know ourselves differently. To experience the world in a new light.

As a therapist, I am in the business of transformation. Yes, when you come to work with me we will look at your symptoms, whether they pertain to anxiety, feeling low, or relationship struggles. We will create goals around improving your experience with these challenges, and most often we will make progress with those goals. Along the way you will begin a process of deepening your relationship with yourself. You will begin to relate to yourself differently by understanding the intrinsic value of your emotions. You will learn to attune to your body, mind, and imagination in ways that support your lifelong growth.

Therapy is designed to help you develop transformative acceptance of yourself AND practical skills.

Through meeting, talking, and trying some new things you can begin to experience life differently. Over time you may find that you are less reactive and more at ease. You may begin to experience less conflict in your relationships… and when there is conflict, you will know better how to handle it. You will be more able to talk about and express your feelings in relationship to your loved ones, and therefore you will feel less isolated. You will begin to leave behind your negative self-talk, and learn to experience more openness and self-love. You will feel confident about how you can work with your anxiety instead of being victimized by it.

Hi, I'm Dr. Scott Menasco

Therapy isn’t just a job for me, it’s a way of life. I am a genuine, passionate, warm therapist that can help you feel empowered in yourself and in your relationships.

What makes me different: I have an extraordinary depth of presence, perception, and attunement to my clients. I have committed to a path of transformation and guide others through my in-depth personal experiences of therapy, hypnosis, meditation, nonduality, and dreamwork. With me you are getting a therapist who will see you deeply and call you further into your own depth.

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A Snapshot of How I Approach Therapy

Everybody is different, and therefore having a pre-set approach most often is just not useful or practical. Therapy is relational and that means I am getting to know you over time. I am observing how you think, how you process your emotions, what your beliefs are about yourself and the world. I adapt myself, my questions and my process based on your individuality, your history, interests and beliefs.

All that being said, I do think therapy with me often unfolds in a step-by-step way, as long as we aren’t too rigid about that. The first step is that I get to know about you, your history, how you process. I get to see how you handle my thoughts and suggestions, how you put them into practice or not. I am expecting that you are probably hard on yourself, because most people are. So I am looking to see if that shows up in your process, how it influences your symptoms.. As I continue to be curious with your experience, you will develop more awareness and capacity to be curious with your own experience. This is foundational to future progress.

Therapy isn’t just about giving you tools. If all you want is tools, you can ask the internet. What the internet can not do is observe you over time and thoughtfully engage with you based on the experience of you. When it comes to making recommendations to clients, I find that the quantity of tools or suggestions is far less significant than the appropriate timing. Often what we need to learn is not complex theoretically, it is a matter of truly knowing it from the inside-out. That truth wells up through our self-observation in an undeniable, and self-evident way. This is the kind of truth we are after; not merely some conceptual knowledge, but an embodied knowledge.

When it comes to the unfolding process, I find that most folks who enter therapy have trouble differentiating their emotions. What does that mean? Emotions often arise in the fashion of a layered-cake. When the layers remain stuck together, the cake often has the quality of anxiety, or stuckness. Emotions are energy in the body and in order to “process” them, we need to become conscious or aware of the way they are layered. In doing so, we can be with each distinct emotional energy and it is less likely to become stuck. Each emotion brings us something different. Most often we have trouble tolerating the intensity of emotional experience, some more so than others. So we practice doing that, and as we do we can start to explore how the emotion relates to our larger experience. Here I recommend the resource of non-violent communication for so many reasons: it helps us to reduce blame in our relationships, it helps us to accurately name our emotions, to link our emotions with our interpretations, and then to link our emotions with a desire or request. NVC is a very simple formula, but most people struggle to implement it consistently because of the habits in their minds.

However, this practice provides a foundation for deeper work. When someone can start to get these principles down, the depth of their process opens up. They will get better at setting limits. They will get better at making requests. They will get better at not blaming others. They will get better at knowing their emotions as messengers and allies.

Again, things don’t always unfold in a linear fashion, there are multiple levels of learning that are happening all the time in therapy. This is just a snapshot so you can get a feel for the way I think about the first stages of therapy…

If you want to know more about the additional stages/steps of working with me, feel free to reach out for a consultation.

Check out the article I wrote for the Sacred Stream, a school for Consciousness Studies and Transformation:

The Healing Potentials For Buddhist Philosophy in a Modern Therapeutic Environment

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