These wholistic tools are options I can incorporate, if needed, in our work together.

Along with effective conventional counseling practices, they serve to increase your ability to release inner limiting beliefs, and to create a more fulfilling life from a foundation of conscious choice.

Once you learn to use any of these tools, they are yours for life on your journey towards wholeness.

Wholistic Tools for Life

Deep listening: the basis of all effective psychotherapy, a form of active listening that attends to the multiple levels of communication present: the overt content discussed; non-verbal body language and sensations; the feelings, fears, yearnings, patterns and possibilities. These are validated for accuracy from the client.

Energy psychology: a range of techniques (such as Emotional Freedom Technique, Thought Field Therapy, Tapas Acupressure Technique), that 1)combine cognitive interventions such as using traumatic memories or visualizing peak performance, with 2) tapping or touching meridian points (based on traditional Chinese medicine and acupressure) to 3) release inner blocks to success and install successful change. Change is often quite rapid and dramatic. Research is beginning to document these beneficial effects.

Guided imagery: a form of directed, purposeful daydreaming, using rich images and multi-sensory phrasing. It accesses right-brained, non-linear states of healing pathways that bypass the left-brained states of judging, analyzing and resisting change. Research demonstrates its beneficial effects in many areas.

Body dialogue: paying deep attention to the way the body is responding to the verbal explorations, through decoding the language of its body sensations, tensions, inner imagery, inner messages, evoked memories; and using imaginary conversation with any aspect to help it become more conscious, to give  it a voice.

Stress release: a variety of techniques to reduce the toxic effect of over-activated stress hormones, such as Cortisol and adrenaline, and to increase the beneficial effects of the well-being hormones such as DHEA.

HeartMath: scientifically validated techniques from the Institute of HeartMath, to lower stress, anxiety, depression, and anger; based on the intelligence of the heart, and the knowledge that the heart is 100 times more powerful than the brain in its electro-magnetic activity. Using heart-brain communication, heart rate variability biofeedback, and entrainment of the autonomic nervous system to increase the well-being hormones, increase intuition, and decrease stress.

Mindfulness: Incorporating 2500 year-old  Eastern practices from mindfulness meditation, of non-judgmental self-witnessing, to assist the client in developing greater capacity for compassionate self-awareness as a basis for exploring charged issues with less reactivity and inner criticism.

Working with the pain-body: a mindfulness-based approach to access the energy-body’s response to trauma held within the body/mind/emotions, made popular by Echkart Tolle in his book featured on Oprah, A New Earth. There are both individual and collective (cultural) pain-bodies that operate unconsciously and contribute to self-defeating behaviors.

Conscious intention: An application of the wisdom that “energy follows thought,” to harness the power of conscious, purposeful, positive choice as a basis of directing change. This tool is an anti-dote for the unconscious habits of reactivity, fear-based thinking, worry, rehearsal for disappointment and disaster that operate as unintended choices.

Quantum physics perspectives: applying understandings from this new science that inform a deeper understanding of human consciousness and how the Universe works; such as non-locality, the impact of the observer’s expectations on the outcome of an experiment, quantum entanglement, attractor fields, etc.

Spiritual perspectives: applying ancient wisdom and modern understandings based on them, from a variety of spiritual traditions that acknowledge our connection to a Higher Power, to Source, to Soul, to Greater Consciousness, and the Earth, etc.

Dream work: a personalized exploration of decoding the symbolic language of one’s dreams, tapping into the wisdom of the unconscious to harness an individual’s innate impulses towards growth and wholeness.

Radical self-acceptance: a mindfulness-based approach to release the perfectionism, shame, self-hatred,  and toxic self-judgments that keep one’s life constricted and  unfulfilled; laying the groundwork for self-acceptance and self-love.

Cellular Expansion and Healing: a revolutionary form of hands-on energy healing work that supports the resolution of constriction and illness at the level of the cells, where all imbalance begins. This allows for physical, emotional, and mental healing at the root cause, and supports living a life of joy. (This service is offered separately from therapy sessions.)