I am a self proclaimed seminar junkie. I absolutely love attending trainings, conferences, webinars and learning information about healing strategies. I think there are some amazing alternative therapies out there and want to learn all that I can to give my clients as many healing options as possible.
As a psychotherapist many of the clients that come in to see me and are interested in talk therapy, techniques such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Practices, as well as a few other traditional therapeutic techniques. I utilize evidenced-based therapies and think there is a tremendous amount of value in many of the typical approaches. One of the problems I run across is that clients aren’t always great at practicing the skills from session and seem to want to focus more on problem talk more than solution talk. My hope is by introducing clients to different coping strategies that at least one will peak their interest enough so that they will follow through.
One of the things I noticed is that sometimes it just becomes too overwhelming. There are so many processes out there, and it’s easy to jump from one to the next without really become proficient at any of them. Fortunately with some of them, you don’t need to be proficient you just need to use them. I plan to use this site to introduce you to many different healing modalities and hopefully one will spark an interest. If you just check them out and play with them a bit you might find that get some relief and develop the interest to go a little deeper.
Many of us, myself included end up self sabotaging our attempts at getting better. This is where the Shiny Object Syndrome can take over, jumping from one modality to the next when we don’t get immediate relief can absolutely be a form of self sabotage. My feelings are that we do this because we have learned that taking care of ourself is something that we need to fit in rather than make a priority in our life. I have found that many of the energy psychology techniques are targeted at changing some of the negative or limiting beliefs that are stopping us from really living our life. I have shared a lot of the techniques I will write about on this site with clients and they have had relief from past hurts or current worries. I have become trained in several of them and now want to really share them with a larger audience. That is the reason for this website. Many of the strategies and tools I have learned have had a huge impact on my life and that of my clients. I intend to share some thoughts about these strategies, some links, and some practices that you can start to use today. So stay tuned.