About Isobel Aitken, L.C.S.W.

Why I Do This Work

I know that pain that goes unacknowledged doesn't just disappear. It gets carried and passed around until someone decides to look at it directly. That's the work I care most about: helping people become the ones who interrupt that pattern, for themselves and for whoever comes after them.

Between my training and the years I've spent sitting with this material, both professionally and personally, I have a real feel for what actually helps and what just sounds good on paper.

I'm especially drawn to working with adult children of alcoholics and people who grew up in families where difficulty got minimized or denied rather than named. Many of my clients have already done real work on their own, through therapy, reading, or reflection, and are looking for something that reaches past insight into what still feels stuck underneath it.

I understand that gap from the inside, too. For a long time, I was the person who couldn't answer "where do you feel that in your body" with anything more than a blank stare. Finding my own way into my body, and into a felt sense of my own wholeness, has been real work, work I don't think is ever fully finished.