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I’m Ginny Cutler, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) since 1990 and a Certified Professional Coach (CPCC) since 2010. I am based in Nevada City, California, providing services via telehealth, with a limited amount of in-person work locally. I focus on adults of all ages, older teens, and couples.
My approach
I come from a transpersonal, holistic perspective that works to integrate all aspects of our ‘selves’ with health and wellness approaches and practices across a number of psychological disciplines and wisdom traditions. It is my experience that your answers, solutions, and purpose are already in you, and learning the fundamental skills of self-awareness and self-understanding is where you find them.
My focus
I work with adults on life transitions and stage-of-life concerns, relationship and connection losses and challenges, and core family-of-origin issues (early wounding and trauma). Underlying all my work is a commitment to undoing the universal, constricting experiences of limiting beliefs that create fear and self-doubt, the powerful feeling of being ‘stuck’, the pain of self-judgment and ‘comparison to others’, the amazingly constricting self-concepts we develop growing up, and the destructive behaviors/addictions we practice to cope. I love to work with teens/young people to develop self-agency in their development, so they don’t have to spend their adulthood undoing who they are not, to find who they are.
My communication style
The essence of what it feels like to work with me as a human being is the quote by Ram Dass: “We're all just walking each other home.”
My journey to mental healthcare
I know how painful, scary, and life-threatening the experience of feeling disconnected and out of control can be. So I embarked on a lifetime of learning to understand how that happened to me. I became a therapist to make sure I never got that out of touch with myself again, and to learn how to take responsibility for my well-being, my growth, and my happiness, and to help others recover and grow from their own ‘darkest hours.’ Even if I was able to help just one other person, that would make it all worth it. Later I became a Life Coach when I came to understand the limitations, in my view, of the field of psychology. There is magnificent potential, possibility, and enormous capability inherent in ALL of us. Instead of ‘only’ getting well from an identified diagnosis, or healing from a challenging life circumstance, I could support people to live into their greatness and their vision of what is possible in their lives.
My goals for you
I help you define a vision of what you want to be, do, or have in your life and help you design a way there. There are so many strategies for 'goal' setting. The key is to collaboratively develop a guiding l structure and process that motivates you, makes sense to you, and keeps you moving toward what you want. And, to use a different word for the movement toward what you want, if the word 'goal' doesn't work for you :-) It includes a vision you can see and feel. It distinguishes clear actions, supporting allies, effective practices, and processes for staying motivated and in consistent movement toward it. It includes regular reflection to stay aware and appreciative of your 'hard-won' progress along the way, and how you can reset yourself when ‘life’ or natural ‘resistance to change’ shows up. It is always consciously in alignment with your values, and what matters most to you.
My first session with you
We come away with an understanding of; 1- what is motivating you for therapy right now, 2- what you believe is in your way, 3- what matters most to you, 4) an understanding of the vision you have or want to create for yourself and your life, and finally 5- a shared plan for getting there.
