Couples
Individual Counseling
EMDR
Couples
Imago Relationship Therapy:
When you plant a garden, you assume it needs to be watered, fed, and protected, yet, in our relationships we often neglect to nourish this fertile place of growth. Learning how to nurture this sacred space between you and your partner, to build a strong bridge between you is essential. You must work together to honor one another, keep this space free from conflict so that safety and passion can grow. We readily spend time and money taking lessons to become better at something we enjoy: golf, music, tennis, art, a personal trainer. Relationships need this same attention and commitment. Investing in your relationship can pay huge dividends for you, your partner, your children, and others that your life touches.....
.....Come Transform Your Relationship!!
As an Advanced Clinician and Workshop Presenter through Imago Relationships International, Cathy is qualified to help couples address their relationship concerns.
This technique is right for you if:
- You are beginning a new relationship that you want to keep
- You want to make a long term relationship even better
- You are in crisis, considering divorce or separation, and want to clarify your decision.
Imago therapy offers effective communication tools, a way to shift communication from blaming, shaming, and criticism to cooperation and growth. Not only do you grow as an individual and as a couple, but you renew passion and fun in your relationship.
The Imago Theory of relationships helps you understand your individual personal growth as you go from Romantic Love to the Power Struggle. Becoming aware of nature=s plan can help you to understand that conflict in your relationship is actually growth trying to happen. To read more about the Imago
IMAGO WORKS!!!
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Individual Counseling
In Individual Counseling session, Cathy helps clients learn how to more effectively:
- Overcome traumas and difficulties from the past
- Handle conflict and stress
- Face grief and loss
- Increase self-understanding and self- acceptance
- Increase effective communication
- Parent more effectively
- Adapt to life changes: separation, divorce, step families, retirement, relationship issues
- Process and gain relevant meaning from your dreams
In one-on-one counseling sessions, individuals explore present day conflicts, ineffective behavior patterns, and childhood experiences that are causing distress in their lives. Personal growth, healing, and insight is achieved by honoring why you do what you do, exploring possibilities for positive change, and beginning to step into these new behaviors.
Cathy offers Singles growth work, based on the Imago Theory of Relationships presented in Keeping The Love You Find, by Harville Hendricks. This is a process of self discovery that helps individuals know themselves better, recognize unfinished business from childhood, break old patterns of behavior, and understand how they can create and keep a strong primary relationship.
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EMDR
Cathy has completed Level II, EMDR Training.
EMDR, Eye Movement Desentization and Reprocessing, is an information processing therapy that uses an eight phase approach to address the experiential contributors of a wide range of traumas. EMDR attends to the past experiences that have set the groundwork for emotional upset, the current situations that trigger dysfunctional emotions, beliefs and sensations, and the positive experience needed to enhance future adaptive behaviors and mental health. The focus of EMDR treatment is the resolution of emotional distress coming from difficult childhood experiences, or recovery from the effects of critical incidents, such as an automobile accident, assault, natural disasters, or combat traumas. Other problems treated with EMDR are phobias, and panic attacks.EMDR is used for performance enhancement which aims to improve functioning of people at work, in sports, and in the performing arts.
During EMDR treatment, various procedures and protocols are used to address the entire clinical picture. One of the procedural elements is "dual stimulation" using either bilateral eye movements, tones or taps. During the reprocessing phases the client attends momentarily to past memories, present triggers, or anticipated future experiences while simultaneously focusing on a set of external stimulus. During that time, clients generally experience the emergence of insight, changes in memories, or new associations. The clinician assists the client to focus on appropriate material before initiation of each subsequent set.
After EMDR processing, clients generally report that the emotional distress related to the memory has been eliminated, or greatly decreased, and that they have gained important cognitive insights. Importantly, these emotional and cognitive changes usually result in spontaneous behavioral and personal change, which are further enhanced with standard EMDR procedures.
Over half a million trained mental health professionals, from many different countries are practicing EMDR. EMDR is acknowledged as an effective treatment for PTSD by the following:
American Psychiatric Association (2004). Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Acute Stress Disorder and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Acute Stress Disorder and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines.
- EMDR was determined to be an effective treatment of trauma.
Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense (2004). VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Post-Traumatic Stress. Washington, DC.
- EMDR was placed in the "A" category as “strongly recommended” for the treatment of trauma.
Reference:
Shapiro, F. (1995). Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing, New York: Guilford.
For Research Information Regarding EMDR, please view http://www.emdr.com
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