Glen Bradley

Only 10% of what we communicate is verbal, so why is psychotherapy often so focused on what we say? With me, come find a style that looks more deeply at that 90% of your communication: your body. I came to Gestalt psychotherapy after being a client of the more popular modes of psychotherapy out here in the East Coast. I tried the therapies that hyperfocused on my sentence-based thoughts or that would have a new skill for every symptom. But I hadn't found at therapy that actually understood my nervous system and look beneath the symptom. I needed a modality that would ask, "What is this symptom holding for me? What is it trying to tell me? And, what do I need to hear from it so that it knows I'm listening?" These deep questions are eventually what drove me to becoming a psychotherapist and finding Gestalt psychotherapy. Gestalt is a bit unique; it's not a set of protocols or toolbox of skills. Instead, Gestalt is a way of life: a way of slowing down, connecting deeply nervous system to nervous system, and finding depth in what your nervous system has been holding but your sentence-based mind has been avoiding. I use Gestalt to help fellow misfits explore what our body knows to be true but our minds resist integrating, accepting, and alchemizing. Learn more at www.GestaltGlen.com I work with adults and offer a range of therapies: individual therapy, relationship therapy, and group therapy. In individual therapy, it's just you and me. In relationship therapy, the clients could be a polycule, a couple, siblings, intergenerational family members, or even friends who are wanting more depth, connection, attunement in their relationship. In group therapy, a group of strangers meet for a given topic or modality of group therapy. I've got some groups I'm building out: - non-binary somatic embodiment group: people who are nonbinary using somatic psychotherapy processes to explore their relationship with identity and their body) - somatic skills for medical clinicians: a group of medical clinicians learning somatic tools for slowing down to be in the present moment with themselves and their patients when at work. Other goals include processing burnout and developing somatic-based intuition. - queer dating in DC with social anxiety: a somatic, Gestalt-based group for processing social anxiety that gets in the way with dating in DC More group ideas are coming soon. Reach out if you're interested in joining the group waitlist. To work with me, you will need to join our online telepsychotherapy appointments from one of the following locations: the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, or Virginia. Why am I so specific? I am licensed in each of those jurisdictions and psychotherapy is limited by client's locations during the appointments. If you will need a therapist who can meet with you while you are somewhere else, you will need a different therapist.