Testimonials

E-mail from client, an artist who was suicidal (reprinted with permission)

"I was looking through my journals and I just want to share with you what I wrote when I wanted to end it all. What I wrote was: 'altho I feel so bad I can't bear to acknowledge all of the things I think or feel, and I myself can't see a light at the end of the tunnel ... in fact I can't even see the tunnel. I have no hope for myself but for some reason I believe Yanna when she tells me she has hope for me and believes I will get thru this. She is the only person in my life that I am 100% honest with allowing to see all the insecurities and ugly things inside. Yet she still somehow helps me believe I am capable to deal with these things and will get thru to have a life as a whole person.'

I am not saying all the other therapists were not good at their job. But that you are great at yours. I know that I am a hard nut to crack. ... So thanks for being the only person that has given me the strength to face my brokenness and being the one that has from the start given me someone I could trust. Although I have had no hope of my own I can believe in the hope you have for me."