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EMOTIONAL HEALING

DON NOCON PSYCHOTHERAPY

Specializing in sexual issues/addiction/trauma, LGBT issues like trauma from reparative therapy and an unwelcoming society, immigrant issues, anxiety, depression, couples' work, and developmental trauma.

KEY ASPECT OF MY APPROACH

Trauma

Trauma impacts everyone. Within families of origin, children will react differently to the same conditions that are present. Society is no different. Much of the processing of trauma is based on a person’s available resources. You may have been a child with a supportive teacher or an undocumented immigrant who had a caring social worker. The insidious nature of trauma takes away imagination where the suffering cannot envision life being any different. 

KEY ASPECT OF MY APPROACH

Depth Therapy

The unconscious holds a great deal of psychic wealth. There are stories and images that run through human history and still flow today within each person’s life story. The process of individuation, discovering who you are meant to be, is a difficult and often painful one as each person is faced with the challenge of uncovering his/her/their true self. 

KEY ASPECT OF MY APPROACH

The Relational Field

Upon entering work with me, we build up and exist within a professional relationship. I work with you in mind. We both share and help to create increasing curiosity in your own story. The connection that builds becomes the container for your internal exploration and healing as we pay attention to the dynamics that occur between us. I want you to come in with your whole self.

About Me

WHO I AM

I am a gay, Filipino-American who was raised in a Christian home. Church ministry and attendance was a large part of my life culminating in being a youth/assistant pastor until the age of twenty-nine when I finally ended my twenty-year fight to be straight. I love people and naturally draw close to the hurting. The therapy room is a treasured and hallowed ground.

Processing Grief >

Processing Grief

It is messy and follows no timeline. For those dealing with loss or empathetic friends, the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) were never meant to be nicely laid-out markers.

LGBTQ+ CONCERNS >

LGBTQ+ Concerns

Heteronormativity, the spoken and unspoken rules by which the heterosexual world defines acceptable behavior, can be an umbrella for much of the hardships the LGBTQ+ community faces on a daily basis.

Immigrants & Othering >

Immigrants & Othering

We are all humans. Yet, the physical traits we bare, the ethnic characteristics we carry into the general public, or the socioeconomic strata into which we are born place upon us unconscious labels.

Relationship >

Relationship

Every couple is tasked with finding each other’s emotional maps (Stan Tatkin, Wired for Love). The idea of “love languages” (Gary Chapman) is no longer new, but it is still pertinent to how each human being relates to the other person(s).

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