Kermit Cole is a Therapist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include Anger Management, Anxiety, Borderline Personality, Codependency, Coping Skills, Depression, Men's Issues, Peer Relationships, Relationship Issues, and Stress. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
From years of working with severe trauma, dissociation, and psychosis, we learned that everyone strives to be in relationship, but the stress of relationships can also cause trauma, urges to self-harm, dissociation, and even psychosis. When we can’t make our relationships work, we say and do things we don’t want to, and we can feel – and seem – “crazy.” We have learned that the best way to sustainably resolve the problems we confront in ourselves is to focus on problems ˆBETWEEN people, rather than looking for something “wrong” with people that we can “fix.” My partner Louisa and I often work as a team, occasionally even with individuals. This stems from the idea that the basic unit of human life IS the relationship, rather than any individual. We maintain a systemic, interpersonal (rather than diagnostic or pathologizing) approach, fostering safe dialogue. We are engaged with you in the project of being human. We use mindfulness-, somatic-, trauma-informed approaches, and dialogical,