All therapy is individual when you get down to it.

Most of my clients come to me on an individual basis – even couples.

My first experience with trauma-specific therapy was several years ago with a 48-year old man, beaten repeatedly as a small child by his father. He could not count the incidents but guessed over a 100. After processing one particularly difficult memory, he returned the following week free of the pain from all the other memories!

This experience was remarkable for me as a new practitioner to be able to have such a success and more especially for him, who had carried his suffering for over four decades!

READY to heal…

The foregoing experience has become commonplace in my practice and highlights the top factor of successful therapy – being ready to heal. When you bring an openness and willingness to get better, the rest tends to fall into place.

A typical course of therapy begins with a standard assessment, but what I look for primarily are those negative experiences that continue to trouble you, as well as shape your negative world and self-perceptions. In fact, in the beginning, you are asked to put those on paper.

This process helps me learn two important elements: 1) your knowledge and awareness of all the bad stuff, and 2) your emotional and physical response to it. This constitutes the “heavy lifting” part of therapy and allows you to get a fast start on your healing. From that point, the focus is on resolving past trauma, no matter how great or small, and preparing to address the present from a new perspective.

It is impossible to predict the number of sessions needed. To work through trauma, most clients average 3-4 processing sessions. Some require more, some less. Regardless of your specific need, change happens rapidly!

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