Psychotherapy and Experiential Modalities

 

The opportunity for growth and renewal exists each time we can successfully overcome a challenge.  Right now you may be struggling with two sets of problems – problems in daily life and those that arise from creative aptitudes.  For example, high levels of intuition and sensitivity may cause you to become burdened by your ability to recognize subtleties, in the inner and outer world, that others may not notice. 

 

Your abilities deserve to be identified, valued and put into action for your benefit.  An accurate understanding of your present situation is combined with the use of your abilities and effective therapeutic tools and problem-solving techniques.  This approach can help you develop the capacity to move through a problem directly, rather than simply manage around it.

 

This experience can become the beginning of a transformational process where you are empowered to live more fully from your own ‘creative space.’  The confidence that arises may make it possible for you to bring your creativity into the world in ways that may not have been possible before.  Peace of mind emerges from successfully managing life’s challenges.

 

Treatment Philosophy
Highly creative individuals benefit most from psychotherapy that includes an understanding of their specific needs and abilities.  This model consists of careful assessment and access to significant processing tools for symptom-alleviation and healing.  Cognitive and behavioral methods alone are often experienced as insufficient because these methods do not tend to offer relief on a level that feels complete enough.

 

Creatively-gifted people usually have difficulty tuning things out, by virtue of their perceptive skills.  The existence of strong intuition and high emotional intelligence lends to the experience of being acutely attuned to the unconscious and the experience of deep feeling-states as a normal course of events.  Therefore, highly creative individuals usually need modalities that assist them to move through their feelings directly.

 

Methodology and Tools
Taking gifted traits and specific therapeutic methods into account, psychodynamic psychotherapy, based on the understanding that all symptoms have a meaning and need tending to, is blended with the creative process to facilitate the healing process.  Problems and symptoms are seen as vehicles for self-transformation, wherein through the act of attending to a problem or symptom, one recognizes and develops capacities previously neglected or unknown.

 

EMDR (Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) are examples of experiential tools and practices that are woven within the therapy process to facilitate the release of negative physiological, emotional and cognitive states that block the natural movement of the psyche and the body toward healing.