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Why Counseling?

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Counseling and psychotherapy is really all about becoming successful. Let me give you some examples.

If a person suffers from test anxiety and mentally freezes up during an exam, there is usually an underlying belief that is sabotaging good test results. Why was this belief generated, and how did it become persistent? The job of a good therapist is to find out and help the client to change this so the person becomes successful.

If a person cannot sustain a loving and mutually respectful adult relationship, there are usually underlying beliefs accompanied by some negative or traumatic experiences that are reinforcing the limiting beliefs sabotaging his or her relationships. Read More »Why Counseling?

Muscle Testing and Psychotherapy

 

MMTMuscle testing in the psychotherapy context is sometimes referred to as behavioral kinesiology, having emerged from the more comprehensive discipline known as applied kinesiology. Sometimes it is referred to as energy checking. Whatever its proper name, in working with clients, it is an indispensible aid to steer the ship safely and efficiently through stormy seas.

Did you know that most varieties of therapy orientations are variations of talk therapy? Ask any twenty counselors or therapists randomly chosen from the phone book how they conduct their interactions with clients and most if not all will tell you talk therapy. They may call it psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral or narrative therapy but essentially it falls under the rubric of talk therapy. There is always value in talking things out to vent, process your thoughts and feelings or generate some insight but it is often very difficult getting to the heart of the matter using these talk therapy approaches in any expeditious manner.Read More »Muscle Testing and Psychotherapy