My Approach to Therapy 

 

I relate, therefore I am. Thus, how I impact on you and how you impact on me determine the nature and quality of our being.   - Charl Vorster ​

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My approach to psychotherapy can be described as integrative, interactional and person centred, meaning:​

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• I integrate approaches and techniques from different therapeutic modalities according to the needs of the client. After spending time exploring the client's context, or frame, I then make suggestions as to the therapeutic approaches that would ideally meet my client's needs and best hopes for therapy. 

• The interactional approach describes a person’s observable communication style within relationships. Using a process known as Interactional Pattern Analysis, the therapist observes and then strategically focuses on certain interactional variables that a client would benefit from working on in order to resolve some of the challenges that brought them to therapy. This can lead to increased interpersonal skill and relational wellness.

• The person-centred approach is based on the belief that all human beings have the innate potential to heal and self-actualize, this approach emphasizes the power of a supportive, empathic and non-judgmental relationship to help a person mobilize and realize this potential. Guided by this underlying belief, I assume an interactional style characterized by empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard, so that a trusting relationship can be established and strategic therapeutic techniques can be effectively used to facilitate clients towards self-actualization.

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Brainspotting

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Brainspotting is a neurobiological technique that can be used to support and enhance the therapeutic process.  It aims at a full, comprehensive discharge of activation held in the brain and body.

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David Grand, the developer of this therapy, explains: “Brainspotting is a neurobiological therapeutic technique that uses eye positions to locate and process physiological subsystems holding emotional experience, including trauma, in memory form. A Brainspot is the eye position which is related to the energetic/emotional activation of a traumatic/emotionally charged issue within the brain. A Brainspot can be accessed and stimulated by holding the client’s eye position while the client is focused on the somatic/sensory experience of the symptom or problem being addressed in the therapy.”

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