My training in the following traditions influences my approach to therapy:
• Humanistic – Client Centered Psychotherapy: A style, which seeks to explore and promote a holistic understanding of people. When working with a wide-lens and multi faceted vision there is a movement in understanding of people in their entirety. People are seen as whole beings made of many interacting parts, for example: body, feelings, thoughts, senses, imagination and spirit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic_psychology
• Gestalt Therapy: A non-interpretative psychotherapy, which emphasizes awareness and personal responsibility and adopts a holistic approach, giving equal emphasis to mind and body. When tracking the moment-to-moment experience and creating awareness about it, a possible link is created to insight which encourages a shift in patterns of behavior and styles of thinking. http://www.answers.com/topic/gestalt-therapy
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): Mindfulness-based approaches and skills that are learned to assist in changing behaviors, emotions, and thinking patterns associated with problems in living, especially those causing misery and distress. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Dialectical_Behavioral_Therapy/Core_Mindfulness_Skills/
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: CBT aims to solve problems concerning dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure in the present. http://www.answers.com/topic/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-1#ixzz1mPouRXcG
• Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A non-judgmental approach that respects that people use drugs for a variety of reasons. This method helps substance users reduce the negative impact of drugs and alcohol in their lives. It is based on the belief that each individual's relationship with drugs and alcohol is different and that substance abuse develops from a unique interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors. http://www.harmreductiontherapy.org
• Humanistic – Client Centered Psychotherapy: A style, which seeks to explore and promote a holistic understanding of people. When working with a wide-lens and multi faceted vision there is a movement in understanding of people in their entirety. People are seen as whole beings made of many interacting parts, for example: body, feelings, thoughts, senses, imagination and spirit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanistic_psychology
• Gestalt Therapy: A non-interpretative psychotherapy, which emphasizes awareness and personal responsibility and adopts a holistic approach, giving equal emphasis to mind and body. When tracking the moment-to-moment experience and creating awareness about it, a possible link is created to insight which encourages a shift in patterns of behavior and styles of thinking. http://www.answers.com/topic/gestalt-therapy
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): Mindfulness-based approaches and skills that are learned to assist in changing behaviors, emotions, and thinking patterns associated with problems in living, especially those causing misery and distress. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Dialectical_Behavioral_Therapy/Core_Mindfulness_Skills/
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: CBT aims to solve problems concerning dysfunctional emotions, behaviors and cognitions through a goal-oriented, systematic procedure in the present. http://www.answers.com/topic/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-1#ixzz1mPouRXcG
• Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A non-judgmental approach that respects that people use drugs for a variety of reasons. This method helps substance users reduce the negative impact of drugs and alcohol in their lives. It is based on the belief that each individual's relationship with drugs and alcohol is different and that substance abuse develops from a unique interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors. http://www.harmreductiontherapy.org