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The clinical approaches I use:
- Expressive Therapy
- Humanistic
- Contemplative
- Narrative
- Mindfulness
- Cognitive Behavioral
- Person-Centered
- Holistic/Body-Mind-Spirit
- Depth Psychology
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Expressive Therapy
Psychotherapy is more than talk therapy and the conversations that are shared. It also includes Expressive Therapy. In Expressive Therapy, the focus is on using our creative processes through a wide variety of media—drawing, painting, music, movement, drumming, writing, and more—as part of the therapy. Expressive Therapy is often intermodal or multimodal, using more than one creative area to create a unique experience for deepening self-awareness and processing life experiences.
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Humanistic Therapy
Humanistic therapy focuses on each person as an individual with unique potential, gifts, strengths, and abilities. A humanistic therapist concentrates on helping the person in overcoming their difficulties and life challenges through personal growth. Humanistic therapists believe that people are innately good and emphasize each client’s skills and positive characteristics while encouraging them towards healing and personal fulfillment.
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Contemplative Therapy
Contemplative psychotherapy is rooted in the belief that all people have the internal wisdom necessary to heal from pain. Contemplative therapy integrates Eastern Buddhist philosophy and practices with Western psychology. Contemplative therapists believe that people are inherently good and have the capacity for brilliance; that all people can use their inner wisdom to achieve healing and self-awareness.
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Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy is an approach that separates a person from their problem and encourages individuals to rely on their own skills to minimize the problems that may exist in their lives. The life experiences of each person become their story—their personal story. People give these stories meaning and the stories help to shape a person’s identity. Narrative therapy uses the power of these stories to help process our experiences, deepen our understanding of self, and discover our life purpose. Telling and re-authoring one’s story can be a tool for positive growth and important change.
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a common understanding of a Buddhist psychology approach that means to have awareness. Mindfulness means paying attention and being centered in the present moment in a way that is sensitive, accepting, and independent of any thoughts—especially ones that are negatively self-critical or negatively judgmental—that may be present. In mindfulness, we keep ourselves and our thoughts anchored in the present moment. In this way we are able to accept our emotions, both positive and negative, as being emotions which can lead progressively to awareness of and freedom from mental conditioning.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive behavioral therapy is a short-term form of behavioral treatment which can help people problem-solve. Cognitive behavioral therapy is grounded in the belief that how a person perceives events determines how they will act; it is not the events of and by themselves that determine a person’s actions or feelings. A cognitive behavioral therapist believes that we can adjust our thoughts which can directly influence our emotions and our behaviors. The cognitive behavioral therapist helps people to set and reach short-term goals.
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Person-Centered Therapy
Person-centered therapy is a client-centered, non-directive approach to therapy. The person-centered therapist grounds themself, and their work with clients, in the belief and understanding that people carry with them inside a basic motivation towards achieving positive psychological functioning and are capable of reaching their full potential. Clients are considered experts in their lives and they lead the general direction that their therapy may take, with the therapist in a non-directive role. The person-centered therapist is non-judgmental, genuine, open, and honest. They give their clients unconditional positive regard and support them with acceptance and empathetic understanding.
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Holistic/Body-Mind-Spirit
Holistic psychotherapy focuses on the physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual wellbeing of each person, who they are, and their life a a whole—Body – Mind – Spirit. Each individual’s concerns and goals are looked at and explored on these multiple levels. The holistic approach in therapy is comprehensive. Instead of symptoms only, an holistic approach focuses on the needs of the whole person.
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Depth Psychology
Depth psychology is a strength-affirming and non-pathologizing approach. Depth psychology explores the unconscious. It often looks at how dreams, complexes, and archetypes impact and influence the human experience. The therapist, when using a depth psychology approach, supports their clients in exploring their experiences from an holistic perspective, looking at both the conscious and the unconscious motives that may underlie our behaviors, choices, and thoughts. Depth psychology is multimodal in its approach and may use strategies such as Socratic questioning, imagery, and role-playing to help clients integrate their new and deeper insights at the conscious level as they come to a greater understanding of self and a deeper sense of self-awareness.
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