RYAN THOMAS NEACE
MA, LPC, LPCC, NCC, CCMHC
Psychotherapist // Seer // Giver of Names
“I hope to help you find that elusive sense of feeling okay in your own skin.”
Proper Specs
Master of Arts, Marriage and Family Therapy, Bachelor of Science, Religion
Experience in Mental Health: 2002 to present
Professional Licensure:
California Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), License #10406
Missouri Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), License #2013014281
Virginia Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), License #0701005000
(Wisconsin Pending)
Board Certifications: Board Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC), Board Certified National Counselor (NCC), Certification #304432
From Ryan:
“Part of being healthy is having enough support and courage to routinely assess your life, to look at yourself critically, to hazard receiving the input of someone you’ve decided to trust. For this to develop into a real lifestyle rather than something that we struggle with our whole lives and generally only do in the middle of or after our current crisis, we have to learn how to do it regularly, voluntarily.
Many of us find that our efforts to do this are interrupted by what happens when we give it a whack — often there is a sea of voices telling us that, for example, our assessments are incorrect, that we aren’t worth it, that we don’t subscribe to the right kind of morality or lifestyle to be happy, or that we are fundamentally flawed for taking the time to self-assess at all.
My point:
If you don’t learn how to have the process of self-assessment without all this baggage, the process of trying to get help is typically exhausting and fruitless. And it is for so many.
So, the key is that most mental and spirtual work is about becoming aware of what happens for you when you try to do it, and then reckoning with that. What unfolds when you try to get help for yourself is as important as whatever you’re seeking help for (which of course is important too).
The only way to do this is to let someone get to know you — the real you.
If we can just do that simple thing, our work together will not only be helpful, but a life-transforming, deeply authentic encounter with a fellow human. And believe it or not, that encounter itself is what does most of the work. The rest is us just figuring out the when, where, what, and how. Turning over puzzle pieces and making sense of the picture.
I hope to help you find that elusive sense of being okay in your own skin — I can’t wait to begin.”
TESTIMONIALS
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Location
San Diego, CA
Phone
(858) 227-7719
contact@juxtacalifornia.com