Understanding the Process Beneath the Symptoms

We specialize in understanding why intelligent, insightful people become trapped in self-monitoring—and helping them gradually rely on their own judgment again.

Diagnoses, research, and evidence-based treatments are all vital for therapy.

But diagnoses only describe what you're experiencing. We also want to understand why your mind learned to work this way.

This approach to therapy shifts people from asking,

"What's wrong with me?"

to asking,

"Given everything I've experienced, why wouldn't my mind have learned to protect me this way?"

You're not fixing yourself anymore.

You're making intentional adjustments.

The Philosophy Behind Point of Convergence

Founder: Abigail Eck, LPA-IP

Before becoming a therapist, I studied mathematics. One of my favorite mathematical concepts was convergence. There are equations that move closer and closer to a particular number without ever quite reaching it. With every step, the distance between where you are and the number you're approaching becomes smaller. The fascinating part is that no matter how many steps you take, you never actually reach that number. It's simply not possible. That number that we're getting infinitely closer to is called the Point of Convergence.

That idea has stayed with me because therapy feels the same way. People often begin therapy hoping they'll eventually reach a place where they never question themselves, never feel anxious, never doubt a decision, or never struggle again.

But that's simply not how human beings work. There is no final version of ourselves where growth is complete. Instead, every conversation, insight, setback, experiment, and act of courage becomes another step. Nothing is wasted.

Now, flash forward to when I began training as a therapist, I was taught different diagnoses require fundamentally different approaches. Yet, in practice, that didn’t feel right and I kept noticing the same pattern.

Clients arrived with different histories, symptoms, and diagnoses, yet many were asking the same question:

"Why don't I trust myself?"

That observation combined with the mathematical principle of convergence became the clinical philosophy behind Point of Convergence Therapy. We're not trying to help you become perfect or immune to pain. We're helping you take incremental steps toward a life where relying on your own judgment gradually feels more natural than monitoring yourself.

When you look back across your time in therapy, you'll often realize you've traveled much farther than you noticed while taking each individual step.

Therapy isn't about fixing yourself through sheer will power. We help you understand your system well enough to make intentional adjustments.

We view therapy as a place to untangle the complexities of your past and present. We start with what's happening today and become curious about where things might have started. 

As the picture becomes clearer, we explore which patterns are still serving you, which aren't, and what you'd like to do differently. 

Then we begin experimenting—one adjustment at a time.

To support this theoretical approach, we intentionally weave together approaches like IFS, Somatic Experiencing, ACT, CBT, DBT, and EMDR based on your goals, your nervous system, and where you are in the healing process.