Veronica Ursetto, LCPC, PMH-C (she/her)

Owner and Psychotherapist

Learn about me

I Want to Know What It's Like to Be You

I don't think therapy begins with having the right answer.

I think it begins with curiosity.

I'm genuinely interested in people how they think, how they experience relationships, how they make meaning, and how they learned to move through the world.

Sometimes I have a sense of what is happening. I may notice a pattern, see a few layers underneath what you're saying, or offer an interpretation that gives us somewhere to look.

And sometimes I don't know.

I may simply wonder:

What is this like for you?

How do you know when something is changing?

What happens inside you right here?

I don't assume that your mind works the way mine does. I want to understand how your mind works.

Therapy With Me

I'm warm, engaged, conceptual, playful, and deeply curious.

I'm also human.

There may be moments when we are quiet. There may be moments when something feels very difficult and we stay with it. There may also be laughter, strange metaphors, or an unexpectedly playful moment in the middle of something serious.

I don't believe depth has to feel heavy all the time.

Sometimes I might say, "I'm noticing a shift."

Sometimes I'll ask you to stay with something a little longer.

Sometimes I'll offer what I'm seeing.

And sometimes I'll simply be curious because I genuinely don't know yet.

The analysis doesn't always have to be spoken out loud. Sometimes it happens in the space between us in the way we slow down, notice, explore, and make room for something that wasn't quite available before.

I Pay Attention to the Parts That Work So Hard

Many of us have parts of ourselves that have become exceptionally good at protecting us.

The part that anticipates everyone else's needs.

The part that takes over.

The part that needs things to make sense.

The part that overthinks.

The part that shuts down.

The part that becomes angry.

The part that reaches for reassurance.

The part that says, If I don't do this, who will?

I don't see these parts as problems to eliminate.

They have usually been trying to help.

Sometimes therapy begins by understanding what they have been doing for you and what they have had to give up in order to do it.

For some people, that means discovering that they have become so good at taking care of everyone else that their own experience has almost disappeared.

For others, it means discovering that depending on someone else feels much harder than doing everything alone.

Sometimes the work is learning that you can have needs without handing yourself over to someone else.

Sometimes it is learning that you can be connected without disappearing.

I Believe Differentiation Matters

I want people to be able to stay connected without abandoning themselves.

That means developing the ability to know:

This is what I feel.
This is what you feel.
Both can exist.

It doesn't mean becoming independent from everyone.

It doesn't mean having perfect boundaries.

It means developing enough trust in yourself that you can remain in relationship without needing to control the other person's experience or lose your own.

This can be especially important in couples work, parenting, and relationships where one person has learned to overfunction and another has learned to depend heavily on external regulation.

The goal isn't to make either person need less.

It is to create more capacity for both people to exist.

My Clinical Perspective

My work draws from attachment, Emotionally Focused Therapy, parts work, EMDR, ACT, ERP, i-CBT, Polyvagal Theory, and other integrative approaches.

But I don't believe a modality should determine what happens in the room.

You do.

I want to understand how your particular system works before deciding what kind of intervention makes sense.

Sometimes we need a skill.

Sometimes we need an interpretation.

Sometimes we need to understand a pattern.

Sometimes we need to experience something different in relationship.

And sometimes we need to stop trying so hard to make something happen.

You Don't Have to Figure It Out Before You Come

You can come to therapy without a perfectly articulated problem.

You can come because something feels off.

Because you're exhausted from holding everything together.

Because you keep having the same fight.

Because your mind won't stop.

Because something happened that you can't quite put into words.

Or because you simply want to understand yourself better.

You don't have to know where we're going.

We can find the entry point together.

I'm not afraid of difficult places.

And you don't have to be either not all at once, and not alone.