Humanist Psychotherapy
You might be disenchanted with materialism. Or perhaps you might find that the mainstream therapy approaches overly focus on thoughts and leave little room for life-changing, hard-to-capture moments, such as religious experiences. Humanistic psychotherapy is where your concerns can find a home.
How I use it to help
Humanistic psychotherapy derives from humanism, which explores the human condition and the meaning we derive from it. Humanistic psychotherapy honours and promotes reconciliation with the aesthetic, the spiritual, and the so-called ‘imperfect’ sides of our natures. I work with three types, which I outline below.
Person-centred Therapy
Person-centred Theory (PCT) assumes that each person knows intuitively how to grow, but that external conditions of worth (values or assumptions borrowed from, or imposed by, others) prevent natural growth. It works by experiencing Unconditional Positive Regard and empathy for oneself, in a supportive therapeutic environment.
Existential Therapy
Existential Therapy is built on four primary themes, each of which guides therapeutic discussions: death, anxiety, meaning, and freedom.
I employ techniques such as Socratic Questioning (“going down the rabbit hole”), normalization (as seen in grief), and supporting the client’s agency to uncover the crux of each theme.
Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt Therapy says that conflictual feelings create internal “unfinished business,” which clients can resolve with the right mental image (called “a Gestalt”). Using this model, I sometimes explore clients’ physical reactions, such as tics or shifts in posture, which are often related to unfinished business, or externalize a dialogue they’re having internally until the proper Gestalt surfaces.
Are you ready to explore your humanity?
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