Pamela Rook(She/Her/Hers)

Dr. Pamela Rook considers it a privilege to provide individual and group therapy to adults of all ages and from all walks of life. She will work with you to address anxiety and panic, depression, grief, major life transitions, relationship and work challenges, family struggles, identity issues, acute and chronic medical conditions, trauma (sexual, physical and emotional abuse and neglect), emotional/life stagnation, and more. Her aim is to cultivate an authentic connection, allowing you to feel genuinely heard, understood, and accepted, and ultimately allowing for greater self-understanding and positive growth and change.

Pamela's style is warm, compassionate, trauma-informed, and curious, while also direct and challenging. Her philosophy is integrative, though she grounds her work in the relational psychoanalytic tradition, viewing the patient-therapist dyad as a transformative relationship for exploring psychological dynamics operating beyond awareness and contributing to stuck-ness.

Additionally, Pamela aims to create a space that allows for you to make meaning of past relationships and life events that may influence your present experiences, empowering you to make new choices and cultivate healthier connections. During therapy sessions, she listens for what is left unsaid, and understands that the unstated is often as important as what has been verbalized. She uses inquiry and empathy to help you elaborate on what has perhaps been too difficult to state in the past, and to identify patterns that may be contributing to feelings of stagnation. She will work with you to achieve your goals as well as to discover emergent goals that come out of our work together (not everyone begins therapy with concrete goals in mind).