The Therapist’s Therapist
No skills. No pills. Just therapy.
Dr. Jim Mosher, PhD, ABPP
Being a therapist:
My life’s calling.
Thank you so much for visiting.
I love being a therapist, and believe it’s what I was meant to do with my life.
I don’t dismiss pills or skills—they help many. But, in my experience, a lot of therapists want to go deeper than that.
If we work together, we’ll aim to get to the roots.
Because change begins with discomfort.
Let’s get uncomfortable.
Who “holds” the “holder”?
Many therapists grew up as the holder of others.
Maybe your parents were absent, emotionally immature, or simply maxed out. So you became the reliable one, the parentified-child in a home that needed someone to step up.
And then you became a therapist.
But who holds you?
Many therapists enter therapy—consciously or not—seeking someone steady who can hold them. In your therapy that will be our aim: creating a space where your needs are at the center.
Who “challenges” the holder?
Many parentified children are precocious, too—whether by nature or because they had to be. You learn to anticipate needs and think three steps ahead.
But in therapy, those smarts can get in the way. You see around corners, intuiting where your therapist is headed before they get there. Or, their understanding of you lacks the depth you need to truly feel “seen.”
You want someone you can’t read so easily—someone who keeps you on your toes, meets your depth, and challenges you.
Depth-Oriented Therapy for Therapists
Tired of looking for a therapist?
For many therapists, finding the right fit can be tough. Maybe some of these feel familiar:
➤ You want a therapist who is more than “nice”—you want someone that challenges you
➤ You’re smart and need someone who can go toe-to-toe with you
➤ If you were parentified, you want someone who feels “bigger”
➤ You want a therapist with opinions, not just reflections
➤ Maybe you just want someone who isn’t so fucking proper all the time
➤ You want to move beyond insight and actually change your feelings
What makes me any different?
There are lots of ways to do good therapy and many good therapists doing it. Here are a few ways I might be different:
➤ Above all, I want to do deep, meaningful, life-changing work
➤ For better or worse, I swing for the fences
➤ My style is active—I’ll support you and I’ll challenge you
➤ I focus on depth, interpersonal process, and disrupting your defenses
➤ I use paradox, humor, and directness to spark bottom-up change
➤ I’m pragmatic and philosophical—grounded, but not manualized
➤ I have over 16 years of experience in trauma-focused and inpatient-psychotherapy as well as supervising other therapists
Okay, but how do we do it?
I practice what I call Functional Psychotherapy—a non-pathologizing, relational model rooted in science, guided by memory reconsolidation, and responsive to each individual. Its core precepts include:
➤ Pain is a signal, inviting you to examine your life
➤ Change begins when we stop avoiding pain and turn toward it
➤ We resolve pain by understanding its function rather than numbing it
➤ To do that, we explore the experiences, thoughts, and feelings underneath and then disrupt the defenses blocking access to them
➤ We discern adaptive from maladaptive emotions and validate or challenge them, accordingly
➤ Memory reconsolidation guides how we navigate the change process
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Individual therapy
Dive deep into yourself, confront your fears, and step into your most authentic self.
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Supervision
Integrative supervision that considers your roles as therapist and as person.
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Non-therapists
When the fit is right, I also work with regular folks, too. Give me a call and let’s talk.
