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East-West Healing Arts: Services: Psychotherapy
Individual, couple, and family therapy are available at East-West Healing Arts. Imagination, brain science, energy work, and attachment and systems theories come together in today’s holistic psychotherapy practice. Clients go beyond insight to develop skills in changing unhelpful thoughts, moods, and behaviors and in increasing positive thoughts, feelings, and relationships. These are some approaches used in therapy:
- Guided imagery engages the imagination to promote healing and performance, relieve stress, and reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and trauma.
- Positive psychology helps clients identify their strengths. Learning gratitude and optimism facilitates a higher energy vibration.
- Mindfulness and spiritual counseling engage clients in practices of being in the present moment and recognizing the Self within that is constant.
- Cognitive-behavioral therapy provides a way for clients to reverse habits of negative or anxious thinking and build new neural pathways.
- Bilateral brain stimulation, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), accelerates learning to regulate emotions, enhancing performance, and processing past traumas and core negative beliefs.
- Emotionally focused therapy has been shown to be the most effective approach to couples therapy. Couples can learn to transform the negative dance they have developed into a positive experience of connection. This approach is also useful in working with other relationships in conflict or transition.
- Narrative therapy uses metaphor, story, journaling, and letters to help overcome obstacles and advance goals. Reading books or watching movies that raise the issues being addressed in therapy can supplement this or other approaches.
- Reiki and other energy modalities can be integrated with psychotherapy or provided as a separate service (See Reiki under Services). Cord cutting is a type of energy work that involves severing the negative energetic ties with another person or thing at each chakra level.
Not all approaches are appropriate for every situation. Therapists work with clients to co-create an integrated healing plan that meets clients’ specific needs.