Our Vision
We envision a world in which memory is understood not as a problem to be fixed, but as a natural, dynamic part of being human.
A world where people feel empowered to explore their experiences, deepen their relationships, and live with greater awareness and compassion.
We rarely think about our relationship with our own memory systems—or about the languages we use to communicate with them. Yet this relationship may be an important part of healthy aging.
Much psychotherapy responds to a natural human desire: to tell the subjective story of one's difficulties to a compassionate listener. We are interested in experimenting with something complementary.
Rather than making the problem itself the sole center of attention, we invite you to focus on your individual sense of wonder: What captures your attention? What moves you? What allows your mind and memory to enter states of ease, curiosity, absorption, and flow?
Our working hypothesis is that psychotherapy can sometimes become more useful when it functions as a collaborative mental gym rather than a rehearsal of one's family drama.
We help people build a bridge between two seemingly opposite capacities: the freedom to let go of what no longer needs to be remembered, and the motivation to make fuller use of the memories that remain available.
Memory without diagnosis
We do not diagnose dementia. When a diagnosis or neuropsychological assessment already exists, however, we can explore what it means in the context of a person's actual life, experience, capacities, interests, and ways of learning.
Our goal is to help you develop a healthier and more flexible relationship with memory: one that makes room for forgetting while allowing you to draw more fully on the pleasures, capacities, and possibilities that memory has historically provided for human well-being, adaptation, and survival.
The purpose is not to make us more dependent on memory. It is to help us live more freely and pleasurably with the memory we have.
This exploration is relational. Having another person who is willing to listen closely, become familiar with the language and longings of your memory, and creatively collaborate with them can become an important part of the process—at the beginning of life as much as toward its end.
