Therapy for Psychosis

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If you’ve experienced psychosis, or have been given a diagnosis like Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, or Schizoaffective Disorder, finding care that feels respectful and human can be incredibly hard. These words are often used to describe a wide range of experiences — hearing or seeing things others don’t, shifts in beliefs or perception, changes in mood or energy — but they don’t always capture what your experience has actually been like. You may understand what you’ve been through in a different way, and that matters. Therapy can be a place to slow down, make sense of your experiences on your own terms, and explore healing beyond crisis care, medication, or hospitalization. Your story is complex, and you deserve support that honors that complexity rather than reducing you to a label.

Therapy can help normalize experiences that are often misunderstood or met with fear, even though they are more common than people realize. Having space to talk openly about what you’ve experienced — without being rushed, corrected, or pathologized — can reduce isolation and shame. In therapy, your experiences are taken seriously and explored with curiosity and care, helping you make meaning of them in ways that feel grounding and supportive. This process can also open the door to hope: not a promise that everything will disappear, but the possibility of feeling more understood, more connected to yourself, and more confident in your ability to live a meaningful life alongside whatever challenges remain.

Recovery doesn’t have to look one specific way. For some people, medication is an important part of feeling more stable or supported; for others, it may be one piece of a much larger picture. Therapy offers space to define what recovery means to you — whether that includes understanding your experiences differently, reducing fear around symptoms, rebuilding trust in yourself, strengthening relationships, or finding meaning and purpose in daily life. Rather than measuring progress by symptom elimination alone, therapy honors recovery as a personal, evolving process shaped by your values, needs, and lived experience.

Psychosis: Some Brief Definitions

If you’re here on this page, you are probably familiar with all the terms used around psychosis, but I want to spend some time defining them just in case. Psychosis is a clinical word for when people experience things that the people around them aren’t experiencing. This may mean seeing things others can’t (often called visual hallucinations), hearing things others don’t (auditory hallucinations) or having thoughts of beliefs that others don’t believe (delusional thoughts, grandiose thoughts, etc). You may have an experience like this that you define in a different way and that’s okay too.

I feel passionate that therapy should be accessible for people who have experienced psychosis – in the past or present- and that there is healing work to do beyond medication and hospitalization. I spend time helping people process their experiences and define what recovery looks like for them.

If you’ve been diagnosed with Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder, but the diagnosis doesn’t feel like a great fit, that’s okay. Sometimes these labels are useful in helping people understand their experience and sometimes they’re just not a great fit for what you’ve been through. Your experience is unique and can’t always be captured in a diagnosis. In therapy, we’ll process your experience and create a plan for what does work to help you feel better.

Visual Hallucinations

Visual hallucinations are experiences of seeing things that others around you may not see. This can include shapes, shadows, figures, faces, lights, or more detailed images. People experience visual hallucinations in many different ways, and they can occur across a range of mental health experiences, including psychosis, trauma, mood disorders, sleep disruption, and neurological differences.

Living with visual hallucinations can be confusing or frightening, especially if others dismiss or misunderstand what you’re experiencing. Therapy offers a space to talk openly about visual hallucinations without judgment or immediate assumptions. Rather than focusing only on whether an experience is “real” or “not real,” therapy supports understanding how the experience shows up for you and how it affects your sense of safety, meaning, and daily life.

Therapy can help reduce fear, increase grounding, and build coping strategies around visual hallucinations. This may include learning how stress, sleep, trauma, or mood shifts influence these experiences, and developing ways to feel more stable and supported. Healing doesn’t require denying what you’ve seen — it often begins with being believed, understood, and supported.

Auditory Hallucinations

Auditory hallucinations typically involve hearing sounds, voices, or noises that others don’t hear. These experiences vary widely — voices may be supportive, critical, neutral, familiar, or unfamiliar, and may occur occasionally or more frequently. Auditory hallucinations are more common than many people realize and occur across diagnoses such as psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, trauma-related conditions, and severe stress.

Many people feel shame or fear about hearing voices, especially when those experiences have been labeled as dangerous or abnormal. Therapy provides a place where auditory hallucinations can be discussed openly, without rushing to silence them or judge them. Understanding how voices show up, when they intensify, and what they communicate can be an important step toward reducing distress.

Rather than focusing only on symptom elimination, therapy supports you in building a relationship with your experiences that feels safer and more manageable. With support, people often find increased grounding, reduced fear, and greater confidence in navigating daily life — even when auditory hallucinations are still present.

Delusions

Delusions are beliefs that feel deeply true to the person experiencing them, even when others do not share those beliefs. These may include fears about being watched, beliefs about special meaning or purpose, or strong interpretations of events that feel undeniable. Delusional experiences often develop in response to stress, trauma, mood changes, or altered perception.

Being told your beliefs are “wrong” or “not real” can feel invalidating and isolating. Therapy does not require arguing with or dismissing your experience. Instead, therapy focuses on understanding how these beliefs formed, what they protect, and how they impact your sense of safety and connection to others.

Through therapy, people can learn to hold beliefs with more flexibility, reduce distress, and rebuild trust in themselves and their environment. Healing is not about shame or correction — it’s about understanding, compassion, and finding ways to feel more grounded and supported

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a diagnosis used to describe a pattern of experiences that may include hallucinations, changes in thinking, emotional expression, and connection to reality. While the diagnosis can be helpful for some, it often carries stigma and misunderstanding that make it harder to seek care or feel hopeful about the future.

Many people with schizophrenia have experienced trauma, loss, or repeated invalidation within mental health systems. Therapy offers a space beyond crisis management or symptom control, where your full experience is explored with respect and curiosity. You are more than a diagnosis, and your story matters.

Therapy for schizophrenia can support emotional regulation, insight, identity, and quality of life. Recovery looks different for each person and may include medication, therapy, community support, and meaning-making. Therapy honors your autonomy and supports healing at a pace that feels sustainable.

Schizoaffective Disorder

Schizoaffective disorder describes experiences that include both psychosis-related symptoms and significant mood shifts, such as depression or mania. Many people with this diagnosis feel confused by how much their experiences fluctuate and frustrated by care that treats symptoms in isolation rather than as interconnected.

Living with schizoaffective disorder can feel unpredictable and exhausting. Therapy helps bring understanding to how mood, perception, stress, and identity interact over time. Rather than focusing only on managing episodes, therapy supports insight, emotional safety, and long-term well-being.

Through therapy, people with schizoaffective disorder can define recovery in personal and meaningful ways. This may include stabilizing routines, strengthening relationships, processing past experiences, and learning to trust themselves again. Healing is not about perfection — it’s about building a life that feels livable and supported.

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder involves shifts in mood, energy, and thinking that can range from depression to mania or hypomania. These changes can deeply affect relationships, work, identity, and self-trust, especially when experiences have been misunderstood or minimized.

Therapy for bipolar disorder offers a place to explore how mood shifts show up for you specifically, rather than relying on stereotypes or rigid expectations. Therapy supports understanding patterns, building awareness, and developing compassionate strategies for navigating both high and low states.

Recovery with bipolar disorder is not one-size-fits-all. For many people, medication is an important support, but therapy plays a vital role in processing experiences, strengthening insight, and building a meaningful life aligned with personal values. Therapy offers hope — not by promising symptom-free living, but by supporting resilience, agency, and self-understanding.

If you’re tired of feeling like no one listens or understands, you’ve come to the right place.

I Work With People Who:

Have experienced psychosis, past or present, and want support beyond crisis care
Hear voices, see things others don’t, or experience auditory or visual hallucinations
Have been diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, or Bipolar Disorder
Feel unsure whether a diagnosis fully captures their lived experience
Are looking for therapy for psychosis that is respectful and non-pathologizing
Have experienced hospitalization and want space to process what that was like
Want support alongside medication, without therapy being medication-only
Feel isolated, misunderstood, or stigmatized because of their experiences
Want to make meaning of their experiences rather than erase or deny them
Are exploring what recovery looks like on their own terms
Experience distress around delusional beliefs, paranoia, or changes in perception
Want therapy that centers autonomy, dignity, and collaboration
Are navigating identity, relationships, or life transitions alongside psychosis
Want care that recognizes the role of trauma, stress, and nervous system overwhelm
Are seeking long-term, insight-oriented therapy, not just symptom management

Our Most Frequently Asked Questions

Great question! I invite you to a safe space to land where we work together to help you gain insight and find what healing and recovery look like for you. All of our work is collaborative – you always get to choose what we talk about, what we focus on, when you want to say no to an exercise I suggest.

Nope. You are more than a diagnosis. You are not just your symptoms. Therapy can include talking about voices you hear, your experience at a hospital, side effects of medication OR/AND we can talk about your relationships, values, creativity, grief, identity, and what makes life feel worth living.

Never! Who am I to judge? Therapy isn’t about arguing with you or trying to “prove” anything. It’s about helping you explore and understand your experiences and helping you feel more grounded, supported, and less alone.

Not at all. Diagnoses like Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, or Schizoaffective Disorder can be useful for some people and not a great fit for others. You’re allowed to question, reject, or hold them loosely.

My Approach

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for psychosis isn’t about convincing you that your experiences “shouldn’t” be real or trying to force them away; it’s about helping you relate differently to thoughts, perceptions, and experiences that feel confusing, overwhelming, or hard to understand. In a compassionate ACT space, your experience — whether you describe it as hearing voices, shifts in perception, or something else entirely — is taken seriously and explored with curiosity rather than judgment. This approach aligns with the belief that people recover, and that healing work can happen beyond medication and hospitalization by making room for your whole experience.

Instead of arguing with voices, visions, or beliefs, ACT helps you notice these experiences with awareness and acceptance, directly reducing the struggle against them. Mindfulness and acceptance practices support you in observing thoughts and sensations without getting entangled in them, while also building flexibility — the ability to stay connected to your values and what matters most to you, even when things feel intense or uncertain. This doesn’t mean psychosis simply goes away; it means you become less controlled by distressing experiences and more grounded in your own life and choices.

ACT for psychosis also focuses on what’s meaningful to you. Through therapy, you can explore your values — connection, creativity, stability, independence, contribution, or joy — and learn how to take steps in those directions, even in the presence of difficult experiences. This creates a path toward recovery that isn’t only about symptom reduction, but about living a life that feels whole and supported on your terms. In an ACT-informed therapeutic journey, healing isn’t about erasing parts of your story — it’s about growing toward what matters most with compassion, self-trust, and clarity.

Psychosis as Neurodiversity

Psychosis is often left out when we talk about neurodivergence, but psychosis falls under the umbrella of neurodivergence. Celebrating neurodiversity includes celebrating psychosis and the ways is allows your brain to perceive, think, and makemeaning in the world. From a neurodiversity-affirming perspective, psychosis is understood not only as a set of symptoms, but as a human experience that exists amongst a wide variety of neurological differences. Experiences such as hearing voices, seeing things others don’t, or holding beliefs that differ from those around you can be deeply distressing at times — and they can also be shaped by stress, trauma, culture, creativity, and sensitivity. Naming psychosis as part of neurodiversity can help reduce shame and isolation, especially for people who have felt pathologized or misunderstood within traditional mental health systems.

Viewing psychosis through a neurodivergent lens allows therapy to move away from “fixing” and toward understanding, support, and autonomy. Neurodiversity-affirming therapy for psychosis centers respect for your lived experience while also offering tools to reduce distress and increase safety, grounding, and quality of life. Rather than asking you to suppress or deny parts of your experience, therapy supports you in learning what helps your nervous system feel more regulated, how to relate differently to intense thoughts or perceptions, and how to build a meaningful life aligned with your values. This approach honors that being neurodivergent — including experiencing psychosis — does not take away your humanity, insight, or capacity for growth and recovery.

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