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Identity Exploration
For people striving to discover who they really are.
What it is
Who are you, really? You might be questioning your sexuality, your faith, your job, your relationships, or even your sense of self after a late neurodivergence diagnosis. Maybe you're in the middle of a major life transition — a breakup, a career change, a move, or a health crisis — and you're not sure who you are anymore. Or, maybe you just haven't ever really felt like yourself.
At ISDR, we strive to create a compassionate, accepting space to explore your identity. Therapy often explores the different factors that shaped you. This can help you figure out which parts of your identity are actually yours versus parts that were inhereted, performed, or built around circumstances that no longer fit.
What we work with
- Sexuality and gender exploration — at any stage of certainty
- Late neurodivergence diagnosis — making sense of your life through a new lens
- Faith and religious identity — expanding, leaving, or reconstructing a belief system
- Life transitions — career, relationship, parenthood, midlife, empty nest
- Values clarification — understanding what you care about beneath the noise of expectations
- Reclaiming yourself — recovering from long-term people-pleasing and codependency
How we work
Self-Determination Based Therapy (SDBT) is particularly powerful when exploring questions of identity. SDBT provides a framework for examining the factors that shaped your identity and for discovering who you are by digging into what motivates you and why. For example, what are the external pressures that inform your day-to-day life? What internal "shoulds" make it difficult to know what the internal "wants" are?
Our therapists may draw on Internal Family Systems (IFS) when identity work involves parts of self that conflict, like a part that wants to change and another part that's terrified of what that would cost. Narrative therapy helps you examine the stories you have about yourself and begin to author ones that fit better. Existential psychotherapy is useful when identity questions are connected to deeper questions of meaning, purpose, and how you want to live.
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