Holistic Psychotherapy
Each one of us have, deep within us, our own unique wisdom which is there to guide us to our next best step on our journey of self growth and life fulfillment. In your sessions, I will support you in meeting, integrating, and transforming what has been getting in the way of accessing your conscious connection to your own inner clarity and guidance.
In addition to using aspects of Cognitive Behavioral and Psychodynamic Therapies, I use several modalities found in Holistic Psychotherapy for deeper healing and transformation.
Somatic Therapy
Brings the power of experience into our sessions. Many of our core beliefs and emotional reactions were formed during past experiences that were beyond our ability to handle effectively or to even understand. The good news is that, through present experience, we have the opportunity to unlearn (process and release) unwanted or problematic beliefs and emotions and form new ones that will support us on our journey toward healing and clarity. When we limit the focus of our attention to our thinking mind we are distanced from here and now as thoughts live in the realms of future and past. Body awareness exists only in the present moment and is a doorway into present moment awareness. This is important because the power of change is always in the present moment. Learning to become mindfully aware of the physical sensations that are created by our emotions brings conscious awareness to old thought and emotional patterns that have been trapped and frozen in our bodies and unconscious processes. These old repressed thoughts and emotions secretly affect us. They cause anxiety and depression, and block our health, happiness, and the full expression of our potential. Simply bringing that which is unconscious into our conscious awareness is a powerful step toward healing and freedom. (more about Somatic Therapy…)
Internal Family Systems
I also use techniques, perspective, and information from Internal Family Systems therapy. It is a current evidence based practice that offers a powerful way to access problematic behaviors and beliefs and to provide the inner healing needed to process and transform them. It also assists us in connecting more deeply to our core self which is the ultimate healing agent.
Mindfulness
is focused conscious awareness of our inner and outer experience, with acceptance, compassion, a sense of curiosity, and without judging or trying to change it. Mindfulness is an essential first step in all deep healing and transformation. (more on Mindfulness…)
Guided Visualization/Hypnotherapy
is a traditional mind-body technique that connects the visual brain and the involuntary nervous system and allows access to the unconscious mind. It can be used to enhance psychological, emotional, and physical healing. (more on Guided Visualization/Hypnotherapy)
Breathing techniques
A variety of breathing techniques lower our autonomic nervous system, relieving stress and anxiety. Because they create a change in perception, they promote psychological healing and emotional release, bring conscious awareness to the body, and provide us access to the unconscious. They also give the busy mind a somatic (physical sensation) upon which to focus so the mind can relax more into the calmness of the present moment.
Mindfulness Meditation
is a deeper state of mindfulness that allows us to experience and rest in the silent ground of being from which all experience arises. In this place the awareness/existence of all problems dissolve and one can begin to embody freedom and wholeness as the underlying reality of all experience. (more on Mindfulness Meditation….)