Jared Golant
LSW, Psychodynamic Therapist
I bring you a potent blend of psychodynamic tools to uncover your unconscious, unify your will, and author a life of your choosing.
Areas of Expertise
Addiction, Personality Psychology, Holistic Principles, Anxiety, Men's Issues, Conflict Resolution
It's my belief that there's always something wise within our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual reactions.
Together, we can discover how the parts of your personality uphold a life script that supported you when you were young, and may benefit from some updating. Theories from MBTI, Enneagram, Internal Family Systems, transactional analysis, and shadow integration support our investigations.
About Jared
I help you get to the heart of your inner conflicts with questions like: What are the different parts of your personality? Why do you keep repeating the same patterns over and over? Why do you choose one emotional response over another? If you're experiencing addictive patterns (either to substances or behaviors), I can help you find autonomy even if you feel you're self-sabotaging. Anyone who is committed to self-reflection will benefit from my non-pathologizing approach to therapy.
I devote myself to easing a person into knowledge of their cognition, their character, and their life script so that they feel empowered to embrace themselves fully and edit their experience as they please. I have built a system of diagnostics that leads into health, rather than out of "illness." I support you in understanding the purpose of your pain.
I know how many mental health appointments simply leave a person feeling that they have one more knot to undo, one more stuck point lingering. I offer you a new view of yourself that is based in holistic wisdom. You'll embrace the realities of your inner life from a place of resourcefulness and present-focused awareness.
Education
2017-2019
University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice
Masters in Social Work
2012-2016
Swarthmore College
BA in linguistics, BA in religious studies
Jared's Philosophy
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Working with anxiety
"Anxiety" has a different flavor for different people. In therapeutic conversation, we can befriend the parts of you that see to it that you don't directly encounter the feelings that come with these fears. Being in dialogue with the parts that protect you means finding an opportunity to give those parts what they need to stop working so hard. When you start to feel the underlying fears with the confidence that they aren't the end of the world, you can surrender the ways that you unconsciously prove to yourself that anxiety is necessary. Self-fulfilling prophecies like "No one will help me" or "I am going to fail" stop feeling so magnetic when you realize just how much you have sought to prove that these are likely outcomes.
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Exploring addiction
I start with an exploration of how a substance or process resonates with your personality. Delving into what "clicks" about an addiction lets us know about messages from your unconscious. For example, we might see that chronic use of alcohol is telling you that you feel insignificant, or an obsession with apocalyptic news reminds you see yourself as powerless. The suffering of addiction is really the mind-body's wise way of giving form to the anxieties that boil under the surface. Ultimately, we free ourselves from addictions when we become clear as to how social challenges associated with compulsive patterns are an opportunity to attend to unfinished business. The gift of a healed addiction is releasing the edginess of rebellion, the sadness of unrequited love, or the anger of unmet needs.
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Understanding health
Too often we come to view health as a matter of managing symptoms. True wellness, I've found, is a matter of embracing the entirety of oneself, not getting rid of our conquering the parts of us that we do not like or understand Having studied stages of human growth, from cognition, to character, to scripts, to identity, I know that the pain that we feel is always connected to the gifts that we are destined to develop. Daily, I feel motivated to explore how symptoms can become our greatest teachers. I'm committed to a new story in which we remember that we are more than the sum of our parts, that we are more than animals existing separately from each other, and that life is more than suffering without a purpose. Recognition of our ultimate meaning is right around the corner, with just a little prodding into our stories.
Contact Me
If you are interested in a free fifteen minute consultation call, message me below with a brief description of why you are looking for a therapist.
268 South 9th Street, Philadelphia PA, 19107
Tel: 267 603 2334