I’m Larry Letich
I’ve been studying the inner landscape of human thoughts and emotions and the outer terrain of human relationships for 50 years.
My roots go back five decades to great teachers and leaders in psychology who were pioneers in helping people live according to their innermost authentic selves. That’s also when I first learned many of the relationship skills that I still teach today — skills that make it possible to express all your authentic feelings, even the “negative” ones, in ways that bring you and your partner closer together, not further apart.
Two decades later, I became trained in Focusing, especially Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF), the most powerful, transformative — yet gentle — self-awareness and emotional healing tool that I’ve ever found. Over the years I’ve led or co-led scores of trainings, workshops and presentations on Focusing, IRF, and Focusing-oriented therapy throughout the United States as well as in Mexico, Europe and Israel.
Then at the age of 39 I realized I had Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Since mine was of the Primarily Inattentive type, it had gone undiagnosed my entire life. Yet it still affected me in many profound ways, as it does every adult with undiagnosed or undertreated ADHD. Since then, I’ve devoted a good portion of my career to helping men and women with ADHD achieve their goals, improve their relationships and generally live better and more fulfilling lives. I especially focus on the emotional impact of ADHD, which is far greater than most people realize.
In the early 2000s I left my career as a writer and editor to become a full-time licensed clinician. I also became a certified Emotionally Focused Couples therapist (EFT). Developed by Dr. Sue Johnson about thirty years ago, EFT has been proven to be the most successful therapeutic approach for helping couples mend their relationships and recreate the safe and secure emotional bond that keeps people happily together.
I’ve been married for forty-three years to my wife, psychologist Helene Brenner, Ph.D., and we have two grown daughters. It’s in my marriage that I’ve “walked my talk.” Everything I know and teach about creating and maintaining a deep and loving partnership, I’ve applied, and practiced, in my marriage. We’re the co-authors of I Know I’m in There Somewhere: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner Voice and Living a Life of Authenticity (Avery Books, 2004). Currently, we’re writing a blog for Psychology Today online called “The Art of Feeling.”
Over all these decades of living and practicing therapy, I have seen a lot. I know the heartaches and heartbreaks that befall people through little or no fault of their own, and I know how people rise up and begin again. I have helped thousands of men and women at all ages and stages of life work through whatever crucible life has brought them to become in the end stronger, more open and resilient, and more emotionally connected to themselves and the people they care about.
Allow me the honor of helping you.
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