Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy offers the possibility to make a space and a time, where you can speak about the issues that concern you. The opportunity to both  be heard, and, equally, to hear what you have to say about yourself and your world.
As you speak, patterns emerge that allow us to begin to understand your past and present difficulties and to find the direction necessary to tackle your life’s day-to-day problems. Therapy, within a professional relationship of confidentiality, acceptance and trust, can help you slow down and feel better about yourself.
Brief Psychotherapy
Brief psychotherapy focuses on relieving specific symptoms. Like psychotherapy, it requires a careful history of the problem and motivation for change. But brief psychotherapy may be less focused on insight and more likely to rely on changing the way you think and act. For brief psychotherapy to be effective, clients may be asked to think or do things that don’t seem logical or to follow carefully constructed plans that involve rewards for the desired behavior.
Coaching
A coach works closely with you to map out a game plan for achieving the life you want. A coach stays with you throughout the process to guide you, create actionable plans, break down what holds you back and motivate you to move forward. Coaching works because you are held accountable for your actions. Coaching does not analyze the past, but looks toward the future to figure out what to do next.
Forensic and Psychological Evaluation and Testing
Forensic or Psychological testing can offer a useful snapshot of someone's personality. Testing offers a place to begin treatment, aide in executive placement, assess competency or diagnose adult or childhood problems. Personality, emotions and behavior are intricate things and often call out for the careful consideration that psychological assessment offers.
Hypnosis and hypnotherapy
Hypnosis and hypnotherapy are often misunderstood. Many perceive hypnosis as magical or some sort of stage trick. Some see it as "playing with people's minds," or downright "evil." A lively debate still exists among clinicians and scientists as to what the exact nature of hypnosis really is. All who study it seriously have come to conclusion that it is is not magic or evil, but it is the useful clinical tool to help people unlearn their learned limitations. As such, it can be helpful in many ways. It is commonly used to help change habitual behavior such as drinking or smoking, but it is also useful in exploring past traumas, overcoming fears, and freeing up one's natural abilities. It is not a cure-all but a tool that trained clinicians use as an adjunct to regular therapy. It is often experienced as a pleasantly relaxed state that allows unconscious learning to take place. It is not, as some believe, like being bonked on the head and rendered unconscious, only to awaken and find that all of their problems are solved. Talk to your therapist and ask if hypnosis might be helpful for you.
Sandplay
Sandplay is a process where the client picks out small icons, figures, toys, emblems and
the like from the therapist's collection and arranges them in a sand filled tray. When
the client is finished, he or she is asked to relate to the figures, there placement and
anything they want to offer about the scene.
"Sandplay is a form of active imagination, but the images used in sandplay are concrete
and tangible rather than invisible and intangible. Like dream scenes, sandplay scenes are
a series of figures and actions. But, unlike dreams which must first be remembered by the
patient, then reported to the therapist and then visualized internally by the therapist,
sandtrays are immediately seen by both patient and therapist. And sandplay is, of course,
play. But, unlike spontaneous play, it occurs within specified boundaries of time and
space.
Even a single sandtray can have healing power."
Kay Bradway and Barbara McCoard, Sandplay - Silent Workshop of the Psych |
