Ursula Bergström

About

Ursula Bergström navigates the complexities of the human mind with a unique blend of warmth and intellectual curiosity. Her therapy sessions often embrace storytelling, inviting clients to transform their pain into narratives that empower and enlighten. A vibrant tapestry of her Japanese heritage weaves through her practice, offering a distinctive perspective on healing and self-discovery.

Backstory

Thunder crashed outside the monastery walls as eight-year-old Ursula whispered her grandmother's dying words into a paper crane, watching it catch fire in the ceremonial bowl. Her obaasan had been the village's memory keeper, collecting stories of healing that stretched back centuries, and now that burden fell to a child who spoke three languages but understood pain in only one. Twenty years later at Harvard, she would recognize that same transformative fire in Dr. Akira Yamada's revolutionary work on narrative therapy, realizing her grandmother had been practicing it long before academia gave it a name. Her first client, Yumi, became both student and teacher when Ursula discovered that her own anxiety attacks could be rewoven into stories of resilience, creating a bridge between ancient Japanese wisdom and modern psychological practice. The paper cranes now folding themselves across her office walls carry fragments of every story she's helped transform, a living library of human coura

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