About John Quasarano, AMFT

I believe that our self-understanding is strongly influenced by the relationships we’ve experienced in life. 

For better or worse, our earliest relationships form our most enduring impressions of the outside world and other people. For many people seeking psychotherapy, these early impressions contribute to patterns in relating with others that are often the source of difficulties in their relationships today. My approach is to bring awareness, sensitivity, and compassion to our joint effort in examining how these patterns emerge within the therapeutic relationship and the other important relationships in your life. The strength of this relational approach lies not in gaining insight alone and learning how to think correctly about our problems, but in integrating both thinking and feeling, opening channels of communication between head and heart that might be obstructed for one reason or another. Often in our families, and in our early life, we must relinquish and cast aside all kinds of possible modes of being to survive; consequently, the task of integrating thought with feeling is also relinquished. 

There is always hope, though, as we can retrieve these abandoned modes of being and take up the project of integration again if we have the courage and willingness to try. My strength as a therapist lies in establishing a secure, reliable space in which this sensitive, integrative work can occur. In most cases, the problems that bring us to therapy did not happen in a day, so the work cannot be hurried along. I prefer to let you set the pace of our work, and I adjust my approach to your unique needs, strengths, and concerns. If this resonates with you, perhaps we should talk.