The “two” in Two Bridges Therapy is representative of our practice’s primary ethos: there is more than one way. More than one way to heal, to grow, to live, to create, to play, to think, to feel, and to adapt. We believe in the restoration of choice. We embody the feminist values of choice, cooperation, sensitivity, perceptiveness, and honesty by joining the two primary paths—bridges—of psychotherapy together: bottom-up (body) and top-down (mind). Good, honest psychotherapy recognizes and honors the whole person and the entirety of their needs; therefore, we must be integrative as clinicians.

Our name is also an homage to our neuroplasticity as humans. We appreciate the incredible adaptability of the human brain to generate new neural pathways. These brain “bridges” are both the outcome and cause of a person’s growth and reorganization. Building these new structures help us traverse old life into new life. What is additionally hopeful about this site of construction, is not all is demolition. As we create new neuronal connections, the old bridges we once faithfully passed through don’t always have to get knocked down; they, too, in the overarching process of becoming can be transformed. Not everything has to die. Somethings need only be altered.

Through partnership, the relationship between therapist and client, which is the therapy itself, becomes the bridge that both reunifies the client to the forgotten, remote parts of them and connects them to new, exciting, previously unknown ways of living, knowing, and being.

Bridges unify. They do not blend what they link together. In the togetherness of the therapeutic relationship, you connect to individual wholeness. It is here, in this type of relationship—egalitarian, respectful, deeply caring—where you learn that intimacy does not come at the cost of your autonomy, your individuality.