Your suffering is real.
Change is possible.
Kalamazoo Counseling Center
5084 Lovers Ln | Portage MI 49002
269.339.1240
Whether your challenges are behavioral, cognitive, or emotional, psychodynamic therapy helps you get back in touch with yourself and make decisions that are right for you. Psychodynamic counseling focuses on understanding the way unresolved conflicts and moments of intense emotional distress from the past may be influencing current behavior and difficult habits. Like any journey, there may be challenging, even scary, aspects to the work.
Change is possible when we learn to stay curious and present about felt experience here and now, no matter how challenging, without needing to act out or suppress anything. Sessions combine mindfulness practices with modern psychodynamic relational process to help clients cope with a wide range of symptoms including trauma and traumatic stress, grief, generalized anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and obsessive compulsive disorders. We welcome clients from a wide variety of backgrounds, ethnicities, income levels, education levels and sexual and gender identities.
About Indira
Indira Kate Kalmbach, M.A., LPC, is a graduate of Northwestern University where she received a Masters of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Indira understands therapy as a relational process that invites transformation through inquiry and investigation. Northwestern University teaches psychodynamic therapy, which is an evidence-based style that emphasizes the client-counselor relationship and focuses on finding and changing dysfunctional patterns of suffering. Sessions with Indira involve probing questions, curiosity, and an openness to explore difficult emotional patterns in order to open up to the possibility of deep and sustaining change.
Schedule A Free Consultation
Indira offers free 15-minute phone consultations to new clients in oder to give you a chance to feel what it would be like to work together, and so that you can ask her any questions you may have. Reach out today to schedule your free 15-minute consult.
Resources
Are you curious about the process of therapy but don’t know where to begin? Or perhaps you’d like to read about the latest research on the effects that behavioral and emotional change can have on the brain. Maybe you’re thinking about trying a walk-and-talk session (our offices overlook the Portage Creek, with easy access to Celery Flats) and want to know more about the benefits and potential drawbacks of this form of therapy. We’ve collected articles from a wide range of sources including the National Institute of Health, Forbes, and Psychology Today to help you determine how to begin this process and understand its powerful potential. We also include some of our favorite podcasts in case you prefer listening over reading.
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any questions.
Email
indira@alum.northwestern.edu
Phone
(269) 339 - 1240
