Approach
My Clinical Approach/Therapeutic Orientation:
I work with individuals, families and couples.
I utilize many different therapeutic approaches to tailor treatment to what best fits my client’s needs.
My foundational approach to psychotherapy is based on my training in:
• Analytical Hypnotherapy
• Transpersonal Psychology
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• Somatic Trauma Therapy
• Medical Hypnotherapy
• The Sarno Pain Management Technique
• Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
• Jungian Archetypal Therapy
• Metaphor, Symbols and Dream Work
• Addiction Hypnotherapy
• Abduction Regression Hypnosis
• Past-Life Regression Therapy
Hypnotherapy In A Nutshell
Clinical hypnotherapy is a valuable, time-saving tool of discovery, healing and integration. It allows unconscious thoughts, desires, fears, creativity, and protections to come to the forefront of the mind. Out of the shadows, these parts of us can be examined, understood, worked with, and reconciled with our conscious objectives, habits, and desires.
Usually when we feels depressed, in pain, stuck or blocked, and we don’t know why, it is because somewhere in the past, deep-seated needs, talents and desires may have been repressed, shamed, thwarted, or devalued. With the help of a talented and experienced hypnotherapist, these parts of us that were lost, can be carefully revealed.
Together we can consider all these aspects to understand who we are as a whole person, in a way not possible before. Then we utilize other modalities of psychotherapy to begin the process of discovering new perspectives for healing, integrating and developing ourselves into a whole, integrated person. This way, we become capable of facing challenges, making impactful choices and feeling empowered to live our best life with new found purpose, creativity and joy.
Traditional and Transpersonal Psychotherapy
In traditional psychotherapy, the approach is that we have a personal biography of experiences that are our own, and we have crises, traumatic experiences that transform our consciousness that are particular to ourselves. These create our neuroses. In therapy, we go back to find the blockage in our otherwise harmoniously functioning consciousness that is distorting the psyche. Locating and regarding it again with adult maturities, we are able to recognize it, interpret it in rational terms and dissolve it’s hold over us, allowing us to come forth then with the regained energies.
The limitation of this is many times our conscious mind does not reveal the “inciting trauma” or, the hidden reason we may not wish to remove the blockage, because the unconscious believes it will protect us from some deeper wound. We may spend months to recall our more recent traumas, which instead of being the root of an issue, it is in fact, a subsequent trauma that has reinforced the original wound.
Therefore, while we may deal with the situations and emotions surrounding these issues, we have not uprooted the primary cause of pain, suffering, shame, guilt, helplessness being repressed by the unconscious as a protection and a survival mechanism. This is where hypnotherapy proves to be an invaluable tool in bringing this first-cause issue to the surface to be dealt with. Dealing with the original trauma allows all the subsequent traumas to fall away and dissolve much more easily and swiftly.
Once these issues are resolved, the psyche is returned to a harmonious state of being with new energy and the individual can now turn to learning new skills of not just surviving but also thriving in their life, and perhaps even looking towards what we term, “reaching their full potential or their life’s purpose.”
Finding “Your Life’s Purpose.” Existential and Transpersonal Psychotherapy:
There is a layer beyond the individual’s short-term happiness of dealing with daily problems, social and financial goals, however. A layer where one goes past all the normal experiences of life and begins to have dreams and experiences that are not to be interpreted in terms of personal antecedent experiences. These are what Carl Jung called “Big Dreams.” Dreams of the individual that speak, not of our personal destiny, but that of our role in the healing, leading or destiny of our family, community, nation and beyond that, of people and the planet in general. This is where Transpersonal psychology, hypnotherapy, and the work of Carl Jung, using metaphor, mythology, archetypes and dreams, takes the individual on what Joseph Campbell referred to as the Hero’s Journey, to live an exceptional life of meaning and purpose.
This is some of the most rewarding work I have done with clients. the depth and breadth of the discovery, the growth and the ultimate meaning of their lives becomes transformative.
Whatever stage you find yourself in, there is a path forward full of discovery, healing, empowerment and meaning. Simply take one step at a time. Surround yourself with those you know can help you. I would be honored to a part of your journey.