The world of psychological credentials is confusing to laypersons. Here is your handy guide: Continue reading “Qualifications Explained”
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Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month
April is National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. As a trauma specialist, I work with many persons (men and women) who have been the victims of sexual assault in clearing that trauma in a painless way without retraumatizing them through the course of therapy using Rapid Resolution Therapy®, a method that is quick and lasting.
Here is a smattering of articles of how you can be of service this month: Continue reading “Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month”
What Hypnosis Isn’t
There are many misconceptions about hypnosis from exaggerations on television and in movies. So what is it? And what isn’t it?
I practice hypnotherapy, which uses hypnosis to enable the inner mind, or subconscious, to make changes that are more rapid than in traditional talk therapy, or many other kinds of therapy. I am a therapist first. I have the training, education, and experience for my profession. I added hypnotherapy as an adjunct to my practice because I saw the value in working with both parts of consciousness in treatment. Going to a hypnotherapist, as opposed to a hypnotist, means there is a board of ethics and a minimum of training in psychology, as well as hypnotherapy, to be upheld and maintained. Continue reading “What Hypnosis Isn’t”
Resistance as a Myth
“Resistance” is a word therapists are taught that means “the client is not being compliant”, or “the client is not doing what you requested of them.” I first came up against “resistance” in my early career in relation to homework. Using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Continue reading “Resistance as a Myth”
Emotional Pain and Returning to Therapy
I was fortunate enough to receive a massage this week. The masseuse started on my back, which was tight. Once it loosened, I noticed pain in my neck which was later rubbed out.
When clients come to therapy, they often know what needs to be done, where they want to start, where it is tight, so to speak. Once we massage that area and the original item is loosened, sometimes there is a noticing of a pain elsewhere. Removing one problem does not create any other, but allows us to see where it was tight, but not as necessary to fix as something else. Continue reading “Emotional Pain and Returning to Therapy”
Decision Making with Hypnotherapy
Are you a person who has difficulty making decisions?
When faced with a number of choices, do you freeze or avoid doing anything at all?
Would you like to be more decisive and know that the decision you’ve made is right for you?
Use hypnosis to light the correct path for you.
The process is simple:
- Make a single-session appointment that will include the intake and the clearing of your issue (2 hours total).
- Gather the information needed to solve the problem, answer the question, or make the decision.
- State this information at your session. We’ll ask subconscious mind what the right thing to do is and the answer will be instantly illuminated.
This process involves no outside input or advice on the part of the therapist and is always what your subconscious mind desires.
You’ll be surprised how fast and easy it is to make a decision today! And I’ll teach you how to use the technique on your own to keep making the right decisions for yourself every day.
40 Minute Guilt Session
Watching clients transform is my favorite thing!
One morning, I covered for a colleague who does talk therapy while that therapist was out on vacation. The clients cannot be rescheduled as they are court mandated to attend. I had an hour with a client whom I had never met, and thus had no rapport to begin with; we were starting as strangers. Having covered this population for the colleague previously, I expected that she would merely want to chat the hour down and get her credit for being where she needed to be; but I was wrong.
I introduced myself and asked if she had anything she wanted to get done or just wanted to kill down the clock. She said “actually, there is something.” “Oh, great! What’s up?” She discussed her feelings of guilt and shame over having been away from her children while incarcerated and feeling somewhat removed from them now that she was back in their lives. Continue reading “40 Minute Guilt Session”
Ethical Treatment is Confidential
HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and is what is in place to keep mental health professionals from discussing cases.
Ethical therapists like myself take this seriously. Things that are private:
- The fact that you are a client.
- Particulars of a case.
- Particulars of a client.
- Length or type of services.
- Identifying information such as name, location, or details that may identify a client.
Ethical therapist can discuss a case with their peers without their peers having any clue as to whom the case is about. The less details given, the better. Only the details needed to get help with a case are discussed, and a clear goal in the consultation is established.
For example: This celebrity case Continue reading “Ethical Treatment is Confidential”
The Chiropractic Model of Therapy
Therapy is best served in a model like that of chiropractors.
Imagine you’ve strained your neck.
- When you are in acute physical pain, you come in for several sessions close together until relief is gained, usually over a week or two. Let’s say this is 3 times the first week and 2 times the second week.
- Now that your pain is moderate, but no longer limiting your range of movement, you come once a week for a few weeks until the pain is minimal. Let’s say this is 3 sessions over 3 weeks.
- Once that neck pain is minimal, but still present, you come less often until it is gone. Maybe this is a visit every 2 weeks twice and then every 3 weeks once.
- Once the pain is gone, the injury may still be present in the form of swelling or a ligament out of place or some misalignment in the vertebrae, so you come once a month twice and then every 3 months twice to finish the adjustment.
- The body is adjusted, and you follow up every 6-12 months just to check that all is well, provided nothing new is hurting the neck. Of course, if you have a new injury, you begin again on that area of the body.
Your Song that Year – an Individual or Group Therapy Exercise
For individuals to use an act of self-discovery or for therapists to use in a set of group or exploratory-therapy sessions Continue reading “Your Song that Year – an Individual or Group Therapy Exercise”
Short-Term Therapy 