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How Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) can help your clients overcome fear
Do your clients have a fear that prevents them from doing fun things with their family? Have they ever only been able to watch at a distance as nieces and nephews partake in activities fearlessly, while their stomach flips and folds just as an observer? Maybe they're...
read moreWalking Our Clients Through Grief When the World Seems Amiss
It was just a few weeks ago that I had pulled away from a doctor's appointment, headed back to my office, when my car radio broadcast that the Notre Dame Cathedral was on fire. A few days later, it was the news about Sri Lanka and...
read moreThe Psychotherapist Manifesto for Self Care
I will tend to my own physical needs, making sure I am sleeping well, maintaining a healthy diet and engaging in regular exercise. Just as I encourage my patients and clients to do, I will learn to recognize and actively tune into any psychosomatic messages my own...
read moreAnam Cara, A Call to Conscious Living
John O’Donohue, in his book Anam Cara, explains that, in the Gaelic language, there are two powerful words that serve to awaken us and assess the depth of our lives and relationships. These two words are Anam Cara. In the Celtic tradition Anam Cara...
read moreThe Lesson In Not Knowing
It has always been interesting to me that patients (or clients) would come in and be in one of three stages: Stage one was “I know what I want to do, or I need to do.” In this stage they are so certain about their decisions they are simply wanting...
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Who Are We? We are a multidisciplinary collaboration of professionals representing the fields of psychotherapy, psychology, psychiatry, counseling, academic leadership and integrative medicine. Who do we serve? You, the clinician. We recognize the importance...
read moreDr. Bessel Van der Kolk
Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk Receives the American College of Psychotherapy 2018 Anam Cara Award “There are many who change how others think, but few with the wisdom and courage, to influence the path of an entire professional culture. Such a man is Bessel Van der...
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