What’s the difference between counseling and therapy? Often these two terms are used interchangeably. However, I like to make a distinction between them. Counseling is mostly about solving problems in the here-and-now, talking about concerns and getting another perspective on them. If your issues are really situational and of brief duration, counseling might be best for you. Psychotherapy, in contrast, helps you to look at your patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. It helps you to identify and then to develop ways to change the defenses that you may have had in place for a very long time. If you have been chronically anxious, unhappy, or in trouble, or if you have a history of depression or anxiety, or you have a history of stress, trauma, or loss, then psychotherapy may be appropriate for you.
What I do in my practice…..
Beside the fact that I am trained as a bioenergetic therapist, I am also a licensed psychologist. There are some problems in everyday life that I would especially like to help you with.
I am particularly interested in working with concerns around reproduction, especially from a woman’s point of view. That would include fertility concerns, pregnancy loss, postpartum stress, adoption, and infertility treatment, just to start.
I also work with people who have traumatic histories. Many reproductive issues are, in fact, traumatic, but other traumatic events can generate problems for people.
A third area of my practice is working with children ages six and under with a parent, who have experienced trauma or attachment disruption. This model is called Child-Parent Psychotherapy, and is largely a home-based model of support, education, and intervention to support attachment between the parent and child and help both to resolve trauma.
Sometimes people just want to get more out of life. Maybe this is you. Everything in your life looks like it is fine but deep inside, you feel like you are missing something, or that the way things look is NOT the way that things are for you. Therapy, especially body-mind therapy, can help with that.
Is there something I can help you with? Some issue you want to talk about, or some concern that keeps coming up in your life?
I am pretty excited to be able to tell you about a two-workshop series I am offering this spring. It is for people who work with postpartum moms, or who want to work with that population. The first day, on Friday 17 April, we’ll focus on the background information needed to effectively work with women who’ve experienced reproductive trauma. The second workshop is more specifically focused around clinical skills used within therapy sessions, and I hope you’ll bring your experiences to share.
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