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What is Mind-Body Counseling?
Have you ever felt that traditional talk-focused counseling is productive to a point, but doesn't always help you resolve blocks that keep you from achieving your career and financial goals? Or while your spiritual practice is fulfilling, it can't seem to solve your work and relationship problems?
In mind-body counseling, the individual is seen as made up of many parts, specifically, mind, body and spiritual aspects. Like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, you learn to pay attention to each part and how they interrelate in order to identify the whole picture.
Over time, staying in your "head," intellectualizing, that is, can leave you feeling disconnected or empty. On the other hand, focusing too much on heavy emotions like grief or anger, can feel exhausting and endless. And concentrating entirely on a spiritual practice for personal growth can lead to an ungrounded approach to problem solving. Sometimes, this is called "spiritual bypass."
With mind-body counseling, as the name implies, you become aware of a more fully realized sense of the True Self. By paying attention to all three realms of mind, body and spirit, we work together to reintegrate and bring them—that is, you—into balance.
In mind-body counseling, you are seen as whole at the outset of the work. We won't try to "fix what's broken"— because we don't believe you are broken at all—but we'll work together to rediscover the natural wellsprings of vitality that have been covered over from years of distress.
To do so, we'll draw on a variety of modalities that are appropriate both to the moment and to your goals. These may include cognitive, Jungian dream and inner child work, guided visualization, Ericksonian Hypnosis, bioenergetic exercises, meditation, breathing exercises and spiritual practice development.
What are some desired outcomes clients work towards?
- Learning to discern, pay attention to and invest more trust in your inner voice of wisdom.
- Maintaining a healthy balance between your work, relationship and spiritual lives.
- Improving your decision-making ability.
- Transforming negative thinking to a more positive outlook.
- Setting strong personal boundaries.
- Managing difficult emotions with integrity.
- Moving through fears in order to enjoy your life.
- Recapturing your inborn self-healing skills (many of which you knew as a child!), and maybe learn a few new ones, which will re-energize you from the inside out.
This rekindled vitality will help you to more readily take charge of your vision of a fulfilling life, one rich with joy, peace of mind and goals achieved.
- Intensive Counseling: Ideal for someone who is in crisis and needs immediate attention. Two sessions per week, each session lasts 90 minutes.
- Life Skills: A chance to make solid gains and achieve your goals. One 50-minute session each week.
- Long Distance Support: An opportunity to stay connected through phone and/or web cam sessions.
- Group Counseling: Make contact with and receive support from others going through chronic or catastrophic illness. One 90-minute session every other week.
Call Don at 212-288-1929 to discuss your goals.
Last Updated June 2009
Copyright © Don Cohen 2001-2009