EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
EMDR is one of the “power tools” of psychotherapy. With this research-proven method we focus on a specific difficulty or trauma. EMDR therapy quickly resolves old issues, beliefs, patterns, and fears, as if moving them out of the nervous system where they have been stuck and reverberating. One side effect of EMDR is utter relaxation, and this tends to generalize over time. It is always your choice whether to use this method.
Sandplay
Sandplay is a gentle, deeply meaningful experience for clients who are drawn to it. Using small figures representing every aspect of the world, and a small sandtray painted blue on the bottom and filled with sand, you may be surprised and delighted at the picture of your own internal world that spontaneously forms. Making sandtrays over time is like having “waking dreams” that offer insight and integration of energies and information that were previously inaccessible to you. Symptoms recede, clarity settles in, and serenity and inner stillness suffuse your self experience. Sandplay is used very successfully with children. However, I have found that in depth work with adults who are interested in this method, the level of healing is quite profound and lasting. Again, use of this method will always be up to you.
Dreamwork
Dreams are like little windows to our inner self, like poems from the soul. Dreams may reveal to us things about ourselves that we just aren’t aware of. Even if you don’t usually remember your dreams, an occasional dream, or even an image or feeling from a dream, discussed in therapy, can be very enlightening. I encourage clients who are interested to bring their dreams to therapy.
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