How I work with Clients: Therapy for Highly Sensitive People
My clients consist heavily with those who consider themselves to be on a healing path of awakening.
You might say that I am a cross between a psychotherapist and an intuitive-empathic healer.
You might say that I am a cross between a psychotherapist and an intuitive-empathic healer.
● Have you done a lot of personal work, but feel like something still isn't "clicking"?
● Are you aware of a feeling that "There's more to life than what we can see"?
● Is there an inner knowing that "There's more to ME than what I currently know myself to be?
● Are you aware that something amazing is birthing within you?
● Do you long for something, like a homesickness, but don’t know what it is?
● Are you interested in topics like healing, consciousness, angels, spirit guides, higher dimensional beings, ascension, and the like?
● Have you been working on your healing journey for some time, but still aren't finding the happiness, integration and peace you've been looking for?
If you answered yes to some of these questions, then you are most likely a seeker on your path of Awakening to your TRUE SELF.
The Methods I Use:
1) Spiritual Hypnosis and Eidetic Imagery
2) Mysticism, Shamanism, Sufism and Energy Healing
3) Attachment Counseling, Attachment Psychotherapy
4) Internal Family Systems
5) Neuro-Biology and Trauma
Spiritual Hypnosis ~
Hypnotherapy
Attachment Theory ~
In my graduate training as a Marriage and Family Therapist, my focus was on Attachment Theory and Trauma. From the time we are tiny babies, we form a fast and deep attachment with our primary caregivers. It's more than love - it's literally a survival instinct. The relationship we have with our primary attachment figures through childhood shapes our personalities. It shapes how well we engage with the world, whether we feel a general sense of safety out there (or don't), how well we learn, how well we cope with stressors, and how we will eventually do within our adult pair-bonds.
In adulthood, we continue to form attachments, not just for love, but also for survival. When I'm working with an individual or couple, I'm looking for your attachment style. How open are you in sharing your vulnerable self? How much do you trust others? When do you withdraw, how and for how long? Do you tend toward the "needy" side, or toward the "withdrawing" side? All of these things affect our personal sense of self-confidence and our sense of other-connectedness.
During our time together in sessions, it's important that you and I form a TRUSTING and CARING BOND. Many therapists don't work this way, but I have faith in the latest research which shows that a loving, trusting friendship between therapist and client brings about the best healing results. You and I will develop more than a weekly conversational relationship, in that I will be available to you via email, text, and phone anytime you need my encouragement and care. I'm not just going to be your counselor, I'm going to be your support system.
In adulthood, we continue to form attachments, not just for love, but also for survival. When I'm working with an individual or couple, I'm looking for your attachment style. How open are you in sharing your vulnerable self? How much do you trust others? When do you withdraw, how and for how long? Do you tend toward the "needy" side, or toward the "withdrawing" side? All of these things affect our personal sense of self-confidence and our sense of other-connectedness.
During our time together in sessions, it's important that you and I form a TRUSTING and CARING BOND. Many therapists don't work this way, but I have faith in the latest research which shows that a loving, trusting friendship between therapist and client brings about the best healing results. You and I will develop more than a weekly conversational relationship, in that I will be available to you via email, text, and phone anytime you need my encouragement and care. I'm not just going to be your counselor, I'm going to be your support system.
Mysticism, Shamanism and Energy Healing ~
In my own life, I've studied and practiced the ancient mystic's path of Sufism for 26 years now. I was ordained as a Master Teacher in the Shadhuliyya Sufi Order in 1999 and have been counseling students along their own personal spiritual paths since then. I am also a student and teacher of A Course In Miracles, and have done a tremendous amount of Mirror Work (seeing the outer world as a mirror of your inner world), the Law of Attraction, Shadow Work and Inner Child Work. I am also a student of the Law of One, Dr. David Hawkins, Marianne Williamson, and many other visionaries. Whatever your religion or path of choice, using spirituality as a resource for healing emotional wounds is a fabulous adjunct to psychotherapy. I am completely non-denominational in my approach and honor every religion equally. I want to work within your personal worldview to help you piece together a healing program that's right for you.
When we engage our mind (insight),
our body (somatic work),
our feelings (emotional expression)
and our soul (spiritual technologies),
we build a highway to real and lasting recovery from our suffering.
When we engage our mind (insight),
our body (somatic work),
our feelings (emotional expression)
and our soul (spiritual technologies),
we build a highway to real and lasting recovery from our suffering.
Neurobiology and Trauma ~
In sessions with me, I'll also be looking for the way your nervous system is "wired". The study of neurobiology has taught psychotherapists a whole new way of working with people. We know that trauma of various sorts has a tremendous impact on the way a child, adolescent or adult develops, feels inside, and behaves outwardly. Trauma is defined as any event or relationship which overwhelms the nervous system's ability to protect itself. Any event, big or small, that throws us into fight, flight or freeze or fawn has the potential to cause a long-lasting trauma.
When I see certain patterns in people, I suspect trauma.
Some examples might be:
• A pervasive feeling of impending doom
• Sensory Integration Issues
• An inability to feel at peace even with lots of meditation; prayer, or purposeful relaxation techniques
• Unexplained, free-floating anxiety
• A feeling of lackluster, aimlessness, or lack of passion
• Hyper-vigilance
• Compulsive actions
• Repeating, intrusive thoughts or memories
• Recurring Dreams
• Frequent worrying
• Looping life patterns that have been resistant to other therapies or self-help strategies
• The overwhelming need to plan and strategize minute details
• A feeling of not being safe in the world or within relationships
• A feeling of never having "fit in"
• Panic attacks or racing thoughts
• A heightened startle response
• Addictions, chronic pain, sleep disturbances, migraines, fibromyalgia, sexual dysfunction, depression
I trained with the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and The NeuroAffective Relational Model. I am a Certified CPTSD Specialist. Somatic psychotherapy is a natural and effective treatment for trauma,and was developed through forty years of research by Dr. Lawrence Heller, Dr. Peter Levine, Pat Ogden, and others in the field of neuroscience. This very special work allows a person to overcome the troubling symptoms of trauma by correcting dysregulation in the autonomic nervous system. I also use hypnotherapy and Internal Family Systems for trauma.
My trauma recovery work allows for gentle discharge and completion of old, stuck protective responses, resulting in a refreshed sense of calm and well-being.
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