Technique of Therapy
In my work with
individuals, couples, and families, I listen very carefully to what
people say and to what is not said.
I believe that the
meanings people make of events in their lives and the stories they
construct about their experience are important to talk about.
I believe that the
client’s agenda for themselves sits at the heart of our work together,
while I also seek to address popular ideas in our culture that may have
some bearing on the client’s issues and experience.
I work to be
transparent in my interactions bringing my expertise and responses, as
well as additional resources, into the conversation.
I believe it is
important to think and talk about how people use power in our culture,
as well as in the therapeutic relationship.
Methods
To achieve their goals for therapy, the client and I
together choose from a variety of methods: Talk-therapy, poetry,
dreamwork, artwork, journaling, family-of-origin work, the relationship
between client and therapist, exploring what is happening in the moment
(in the client and in the client-therapist relationship), visualization,
homework exercises, mindfulness.
Sometimes therapy involves skill development, and if
desired we can work in these or other areas: relationship-building
skills, self-esteem enhancement, mindfulness awareness, relaxation
training, emotion-regulation skills*, distress-tolerance skills*.
(*Based on Marsha Linehan’s Dialectical
Behavior Therapy)
Couples
I use the Gottman Method of Marital Therapy; this is a
compassionate and respectful way of working with couples that often
brings about significant changes in their relationship by focusing on
building the marital friendship, reducing hurtful conflict, and
enhancing partner’s abilities to understand each other.
When we embrace our
losses, we become fierce with reality.
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