"Therapeutic approach or what to expect in therapy"
The Basics:
My approach to the therapeutic process is a combined approach combed from many different bodies of knowledge into one singular existing framework. I have combined perspectives from both the Jungian school of Psychology and the Existential school of Psychology as well as using notions and concepts from Mythology, the Alchemical Process, Spirituality, Stories and Folk Tales and the clients own unique personal myth. We will explore your life using this framework to identify major struggles, where they come from and we will work at healing that root complex to alleviate your suffering.
What Will We Examine:
During the therapy process we will explore & process early childhood history, family dynamics, behavioral choices, unconscious drives as well as exploring and processing feelings and emotions. We may explore dream content to look for archetypal images, symbols and themes that are prevalent and repeat in forms or patterns, it is this dream content which can tell us much about our own Psyche (the human soul, mind, or spirit) and how it is functioning and perhaps controlling our life.
Bringing it All Together:
In order to function as a complete, free and mature individual we need to come to terms with both sides of ourselves, essentially the light and the dark side of our own Psyche, we need to fully understand our own personal struggles, our strengths, our weaknesses, our qualities (both positive and negative), and our own sense of personal power. When we have become master over ourselves we no longer need to be shackled by our own chains.
My approach to the therapeutic process is a combined approach combed from many different bodies of knowledge into one singular existing framework. I have combined perspectives from both the Jungian school of Psychology and the Existential school of Psychology as well as using notions and concepts from Mythology, the Alchemical Process, Spirituality, Stories and Folk Tales and the clients own unique personal myth. We will explore your life using this framework to identify major struggles, where they come from and we will work at healing that root complex to alleviate your suffering.
What Will We Examine:
During the therapy process we will explore & process early childhood history, family dynamics, behavioral choices, unconscious drives as well as exploring and processing feelings and emotions. We may explore dream content to look for archetypal images, symbols and themes that are prevalent and repeat in forms or patterns, it is this dream content which can tell us much about our own Psyche (the human soul, mind, or spirit) and how it is functioning and perhaps controlling our life.
Bringing it All Together:
In order to function as a complete, free and mature individual we need to come to terms with both sides of ourselves, essentially the light and the dark side of our own Psyche, we need to fully understand our own personal struggles, our strengths, our weaknesses, our qualities (both positive and negative), and our own sense of personal power. When we have become master over ourselves we no longer need to be shackled by our own chains.
A Therapeutic Parable: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again."
Everyone remembers the nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty, we remember the lines, we remember the rhythm that goes along with the rhyme, but we probably have never really thought about the meaning behind this old song or rhyme. Ask yourself this? What is Humpty Dumpty, what does he resemble, what he is he symbolic of? Of course, an “Egg” and what comes from eggs when we look at them in nature? Life, possibility, and a new beginning. Likewise the wall is symbolic of life itself, and reminds us that at some point in our own life we will fall and we may fall hard and when we hit rock-bottom we may crack. When Humpty Dumpty fell and shattered to pieces all the king’s men and all the king's horses couldn't put Humpty together again. We have two views on this last sentence of the rhyme when we imagine ourselves shattered laying on the ground, perhaps after we lose someone we love or are suffering through a failed relationship, first, no one but yourself can fix you or "put you together again" and secondly you can never go back in time to the state before you "fell", it is impossible, you are forever changed. But with the shattering there is also new beginnings and new possibilities. Humpty, ourselves and the phoenix all share commonalities, we suffer through tragedy and change and then are reborn again, hopefully wiser and stronger "the second time".
All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again."
Everyone remembers the nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty, we remember the lines, we remember the rhythm that goes along with the rhyme, but we probably have never really thought about the meaning behind this old song or rhyme. Ask yourself this? What is Humpty Dumpty, what does he resemble, what he is he symbolic of? Of course, an “Egg” and what comes from eggs when we look at them in nature? Life, possibility, and a new beginning. Likewise the wall is symbolic of life itself, and reminds us that at some point in our own life we will fall and we may fall hard and when we hit rock-bottom we may crack. When Humpty Dumpty fell and shattered to pieces all the king’s men and all the king's horses couldn't put Humpty together again. We have two views on this last sentence of the rhyme when we imagine ourselves shattered laying on the ground, perhaps after we lose someone we love or are suffering through a failed relationship, first, no one but yourself can fix you or "put you together again" and secondly you can never go back in time to the state before you "fell", it is impossible, you are forever changed. But with the shattering there is also new beginnings and new possibilities. Humpty, ourselves and the phoenix all share commonalities, we suffer through tragedy and change and then are reborn again, hopefully wiser and stronger "the second time".
"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
Carl Jung
Carl Jung