Therapy for Therapists
in Philadelphia
To change your life, you've gotta experience discomfort.
Let's get uncomfortable.
Who helps the helper?
A lot of therapists carry the same instinct: manage the room, manage the people in it, and put your own needs somewhere at the back. For many of us, that's not a personality quirk — it's a role we learned early, as parentified kids, that got rewarded long before it had a job title attached.
I think about this as becoming a "holder" long before the job title existed — the pattern I write about in Who Holds the Holder?: the kid who managed everyone else's needs first, who got good at it, and then found a profession that rewards exactly that skill. The pattern doesn't disappear with a license. It just gets a job title.
That history can make finding your own therapist genuinely hard: you're good at seeing around corners and outwitting your therapist. Maybe standard therapy feels too squishy.
To change, you've got to get outside your comfort zone. For a fuller picture of how I think about this work, visit my core home page.
Dr. Jim Mosher, PhD, ABPP
Who holds the holder?
The method is called Functional Psychotherapy, and I'm still shaping it through ongoing study and practice. The goal is transforming your problems through experiential, bottom-up work — rather than managing symptoms top-down. I lead with warmth, but I don't shy away from directness when it matters.
Want a concrete sense of it? I've published a case study in combat trauma and a paper on the practical theory that shapes how I practice.
Telehealth sessions in Pennsylvania via PSYPACT authorization; I'm based in Bloomington, MN, and see clients by video only outside Minnesota.