About

I'm Bethany Haug, LPC (she/her), and I'm glad you're here. Please take your time to consider if what I have to share resonates with what you're hoping to experience in therapy, or maybe inspires some hope or curiosity in you for what therapy could be.

I work well with individuals who are wanting to explore their inner world and feel more connected to themselves and others. My goal as a therapist is to provide a safe foundation of focus and structure for deep and embodied work. 

In my experience, when we turn compassionately, through our bodies and minds, toward the roots of our suffering we find healing. This way of working is not about managing our symptoms or behavior, but transforming the implicit learnings that led us to the symptoms or behavior in the first place. I believe that a good therapist is both a guide and companion for the journey. 

MY APPROACH TO THERAPY 

My approach to therapy is relational and experiential. Being relational means that I'm not a "blank slate" type of therapist, keeping myself at a distance for the sake of remaining objective. In fact, I bring my own experience of our process into the session so that we can join in working together and stand on equal footing. Being experiential means that I work from the assumption that if we're only talking about issues, we aren't really engaging the full mind, and are more likely to be reinforcing what we already believe or know. In contrast, I invite present-moment awareness of what you are experiencing in your body, mind, and in our session to encourage new experience and new learning. This involves bringing compassion and curiosity to survival strategies and protective patterns as they emerge in our work. We'll integrate your experience of old and new ways of being, so that new meaning, choice, and flexibility can emerge. My clients often describe this way of working as surprising, rewarding, and quite different from their previous experiences with therapy.

The experiential modalities that I draw from are Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), and Coherence Therapy. You can visit the following websites to find out more about my training.

I love the work of Dr. Tori Olds and encourage you to check out her video below to learn more about experiential, mindfulness-based therapy. If you are interested in learning more, you can find videos about AEDP, IFS, and Coherence therapy on her YouTube channel.

CREDENTIALS