About Dennis' Practice
Individual Psychotherapy
Depth psychology emphasizes the importance of what lies below conscious awareness. Paying attention to images from dreams, and to the stories of your life, we look into the history of emotional patterns that keep you from living fully. Where some might see a symptom—anxiety, depressed mood, conflict in a relationship—as a problem to be fixed or as an illness to be cured, I find that the challenges we bring to therapy can also bring opportunities for growth and transformation.
Couples Therapy
Conflict in an intimate relationship often involves protecting underlying vulnerability. In a couples setting I work to help each partner feel respectfully heard by the other, reducing emotional reactivity and increasing empathy and understanding. Couples therapy can include inner child work, which involves healing unresolved wounds that are creating unwanted barriers to the connection we want with our partner and with ourselves.
Cultivating Creativity
For me therapy is often about unlocking the authentic self -- that unseen space within where our creativity comes from. Through sandplay, expressive arts, and a variety of experiential practices, I have had the opportunity to apply therapeutic skills to accessing creativity and helping people of all ages and all walks of life identify and move through the issues that block the flow of ideas.
Depth Typology: The Singer-Loomis Type Deployment Inventory
This 45-minute questionnaire can help you understand your strengths and weaknesses. The Singer-Loomis can help you maximize individual potential, foster better relationships, elevate teamwork, and defuse conflict.
Diversity
As a step-parent to adult children of color, I am sensitive to issues related to race, gender and sexual orientation. In therapy when prejudice, discrimination or marginalization are important to your process, we work together to repair the damage done to your sense of self.
Sandplay Therapy
This projective technique grows from the ground of Jungian depth psychology, a theory of change which emphasizes what lies below conscious awareness. In sandplay we project what it’s like to be us on the inside out into the scene we make in the sand. For people of all ages, including children and couples, sandplay can help reveal unconscious conflicts and point the way toward resolutions we can work with in our everyday lives.
Self-Esteem and Identity Issues
As someone who has struggled with self-esteem and identity issues, I can help you re-frame self-defeating thoughts, resolve inner conflicts and learn to value and trust your own experience. Therapy can help you feel more authentic, alive and confident.
Trauma and Abuse
Unresolved trauma and/or abuse can leave a person feeling powerless and broken, orphaned and unloved. Having been hurt deeply myself, I bring empathy for your experience and the ability to host a safe space that supports your process of healing. My role is to listen, value, and understand what it's like to be you. If you feel overwhelmed and unsupported, I can help you regain a sense of your own worth. Working together in therapy, you may learn to value and trust your own experience, in the process creating a healthy connection to your self and others.
Wilderness Therapy
Moving through terrain that's bigger than I am, wilderness travel has helped me process grief and loss, achieve clarity around inner conflicts, heal old wounds, and meet myself in new ways. As a professional I've engaged in nature-based practices for personal growth for nearly 15 years. My training is a blend of traditional psychotherapy, at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and work with NOLS Wilderness Medicine and The School of Lost Borders. As a wilderness therapist I can help you move through fatigue and fear, surrendering old ideas about yourself, bringing new insights and resources back to your front-country life.
Depth psychology emphasizes the importance of what lies below conscious awareness. Paying attention to images from dreams, and to the stories of your life, we look into the history of emotional patterns that keep you from living fully. Where some might see a symptom—anxiety, depressed mood, conflict in a relationship—as a problem to be fixed or as an illness to be cured, I find that the challenges we bring to therapy can also bring opportunities for growth and transformation.
Couples Therapy
Conflict in an intimate relationship often involves protecting underlying vulnerability. In a couples setting I work to help each partner feel respectfully heard by the other, reducing emotional reactivity and increasing empathy and understanding. Couples therapy can include inner child work, which involves healing unresolved wounds that are creating unwanted barriers to the connection we want with our partner and with ourselves.
Cultivating Creativity
For me therapy is often about unlocking the authentic self -- that unseen space within where our creativity comes from. Through sandplay, expressive arts, and a variety of experiential practices, I have had the opportunity to apply therapeutic skills to accessing creativity and helping people of all ages and all walks of life identify and move through the issues that block the flow of ideas.
Depth Typology: The Singer-Loomis Type Deployment Inventory
This 45-minute questionnaire can help you understand your strengths and weaknesses. The Singer-Loomis can help you maximize individual potential, foster better relationships, elevate teamwork, and defuse conflict.
Diversity
As a step-parent to adult children of color, I am sensitive to issues related to race, gender and sexual orientation. In therapy when prejudice, discrimination or marginalization are important to your process, we work together to repair the damage done to your sense of self.
Sandplay Therapy
This projective technique grows from the ground of Jungian depth psychology, a theory of change which emphasizes what lies below conscious awareness. In sandplay we project what it’s like to be us on the inside out into the scene we make in the sand. For people of all ages, including children and couples, sandplay can help reveal unconscious conflicts and point the way toward resolutions we can work with in our everyday lives.
Self-Esteem and Identity Issues
As someone who has struggled with self-esteem and identity issues, I can help you re-frame self-defeating thoughts, resolve inner conflicts and learn to value and trust your own experience. Therapy can help you feel more authentic, alive and confident.
Trauma and Abuse
Unresolved trauma and/or abuse can leave a person feeling powerless and broken, orphaned and unloved. Having been hurt deeply myself, I bring empathy for your experience and the ability to host a safe space that supports your process of healing. My role is to listen, value, and understand what it's like to be you. If you feel overwhelmed and unsupported, I can help you regain a sense of your own worth. Working together in therapy, you may learn to value and trust your own experience, in the process creating a healthy connection to your self and others.
Wilderness Therapy
Moving through terrain that's bigger than I am, wilderness travel has helped me process grief and loss, achieve clarity around inner conflicts, heal old wounds, and meet myself in new ways. As a professional I've engaged in nature-based practices for personal growth for nearly 15 years. My training is a blend of traditional psychotherapy, at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and work with NOLS Wilderness Medicine and The School of Lost Borders. As a wilderness therapist I can help you move through fatigue and fear, surrendering old ideas about yourself, bringing new insights and resources back to your front-country life.
Dennis Pottenger, M.A., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
5150 North 6th Street, Suite 115, Fresno, CA 93710
559.614.0010
jungian.pottenger@yahoo.com
5150 North 6th Street, Suite 115, Fresno, CA 93710
559.614.0010
jungian.pottenger@yahoo.com
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