Kevin Klevjer

Martin Buber once said, “All real living is meeting.” We humans seem built for connection, for meeting, for encounter. We thrive when we are able to see and be seen. Yet, all humans also experience barriers to connection. Depression, anxiety, and the impact of trauma in our life and story often prevents the very sense of belonging we yearn for. Our work together provides a place to experience belonging and attunement, to discover ways there have been maladaptive patterns of disconnection in your life, and to imagine new ways of living that will bring relational healing.

I work with adults in individual therapy, and I offer a therapeutic gaming experience known as Encounter D&D - a therapeutic gaming group that utilizes Dungeons and Dragons as a low entry gate, therapy adjacent offering, emphasizing parts exploration, belonging in community, and overall increasing a capacity for play. As Donald Winnicott once said, "Psychotherapy has to do with two people playing together. The corollary of this is that where playing is not possible then the work done by the therapist is directed towards bringing the patient from a state of not being able to play into a state of being able to play.”

In both therapy, and Encounter D&D, my approach is largely influenced by Relational Psychodynamic Therapy, as I have 3 years of post-graduate school certification training through the Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute. I love helping people grow in self-awareness, watching them gain a sense of freedom to live differently than the patterns they've been stuck in, and to encourage them towards living a more vibrant and playful life.