Treatment Philosophy
Our mind, body, and emotions have a story to tell. This story gets reenacted in our lives as an attempt to heal until we embrace it and allow it to unfold. The unfolding is the process of healing the past. Healing begins as we listen and allow the wisdom of our bodies to lead us in a healing adventure. This healing adventure can restore and deepen our connection to Spirit.
Energy
Psychology
Energy psychology methods gently and swiftly release traumatic events that are frozen in time in the body-mind system. These events can negatively influence how you see the world, experience emotion and relate to others. Energy psychology (EP) is a family of integrative approaches to psychotherapy, coaching and healthcare treatment rooted in mind-body healing traditions that are over 2,500 years old. EP methods blend the bio-energetic insights of these traditions with the best of contemporary psychological practice, and have been refined through 35 years of modern clinical experience with millions of clients throughout the world.
Individual
Therapy
I help adults recover from childhood and adult trauma with the use of body centered therapies. Unresolved trauma often negatively affects our relationships, careers, and physical/mental/emotional/spiritual health. People who have experienced trauma are often doing the very best they know how to deal with the emotional and physiological response to what has happened to them. People often don’t realize the struggles they are having in their lives can be linked to things that have happened in the past. They try to change their behavior with little to no success, or easily fall back into old habits.
Emotional Freedom
Techniques (EFT)
EFT developed by Gary Craig utilizes the ancient wisdom of acupressure points along with active and reflective listening to assist the mind and body to heal. It includes many techniques that are easy to learn and can be used on your own. Research has shown that EFT is effective in reducing stress, levels of cortisol, depression, chronic pain, anger, and anxiety. It is effective in the treatment of trauma and has been listed as an effective secondary treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) by the Veterans Administration.
Internal Family
Systems (IFS)
Internal Family System therapy developed by Richard Schwartz helps us create a cooperative healing relationship with ourselves by developing a deep nurturing relationship between our internal Self and the parts of us that hold the memories of our past and the parts that protect us. It teaches us to listen and pay attention to the internal messages we experience as emotion, thoughts, physical sensation, or pain. Listening helps us become aware of our internal wisdom and our innate healing capacity. During this process painful memories from our past can be released and we can then invite back or restore our true essence.
More About Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
The Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT, is a method of therapy that was introduced in the 1990s by Gary Craig. EFT is based on concepts from Chinese acupuncture that have been practiced for thousands of years. The technique, popularly known as “tapping.” involves tapping acupressure spots on the body. There is some debate over why EFT works, but many people report that it is effective, particularly for PTSD. In fact, some say that EFT worked for them when more traditional forms of therapy didn’t.
EFT is a powerful, drug-free, easy-to-learn and easy-to-use technique that can reduce stress or painful emotions associated with thoughts, past experiences, etc.
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, there are several points on your body that are tapped gently with the tips of the fingers on one hand, whilst repeating certain relevant phrases at the same time.
The theory behind this technique involves the body’s energy field, or “meridians”, so named by the ancient Chinese. Whether you believe in energy fields or not, you might be curious enough to try this the next time you feel negative emotions – and be surprised by the results.
