Bridget Hager, LICSW
Virtual Therapist in MA & FL
Hi, I’m bridget
As a fellow millennial woman, I am struck by how often I meet loving, accomplished, wonderful women who truly know how to take care of everything and everyone but themselves. Whether it was never safe, never modeled, or simply never allowed -I am witnessing a generation of women who have never known the gift of caring for their whole selves in an unconditional and authentic way. And after a few years in practice I could no longer ignore this trend that I saw among clients, friends, & family alike.
I sought to create a space dedicated to empowering women to meet, embrace, and fall in love with taking care of themselves. And in doing so, My Kind of Therapy was born! This space is for women who have kept it together for the sake of everyone else and have found themselves in their 20s, 30s, 40s & beyond unable to hear their own intuition, set sustainable boundaries, and practice unconditional love and acceptance of self.
If you see yourself in this story, I am so happy you are here!
My Approach:
When we begin our therapeutic journey it can be really easy to fall into similar patterns we see in our outside lives, repeating in therapy. If you are a people pleaser, it would not be uncommon to feel pressure to get your therapist to “like you” by agreeing with everything they say, even if it does not feel right to you. If you are an overachiever, you may approach therapy like it is a game to be won and find yourself attaching your sense of worth or value on how “good” you are at therapy. If you are a perfectionist, you may find yourself avoiding therapy after a session or two, finding the pressure to process, understand, and heal perfectly to be impossible so you procrastinate the therapy altogether.
That is why it is so important to spend time building a gentle curiosity about both how you feel and why you may feel that way. In order to feel safe enough to embrace that curiosity, we have to spend time building a safe and nurturing therapeutic environment. I do this by bringing in elements of my own personality, including deep empathy & humor to relate on a human level, not just a clinical one.
Therapy is a mutual discernment process, it needs to feel like the right fit on both sides in order to get all you can from the experience. That is why I offer a free 15 minute consultation to give us both the opportunity to decide if it feels right!
