Achieving your own potential Everyone can use a little help when life takes a sudden, unexpected turn. Professional therapy can help with anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues. The good news is that therapy can also help us in our daily lives by helping us understand our thoughts, moods, and behaviors. Therapy can help…
Holistic medicine is a form of healing that considers the whole person – body, mind, spirit and emotions – in the pursuit of optimal health. According to the philosophy of holistic medicine, achieving the right balance in life can lead to optimal health – the primary goal of holistic medicine. Practitioners of holistic medicine believe…
Dream Analysis as a Tool for Growth Freud drew attention to this part of life in 1900 with his book on dreams. His concept is that a dream is a distorted representation of a secret, incompatible wish that does not agree with the conscious attitude and that is censored, or rather, distorted. This makes the…
Transactional Analysis Transactional Analysis (TA) is a psychoanalytic theory and method of psychotherapy in which social transactions are analyzed to determine the ego state of the communicator (whether parent, child, or adult) as a basis for understanding behavior. In transactional analysis, the communicator is taught to change the ego state as a way of resolving…
Somatic Experiencing Somatic Experiencing is a form of alternative therapy aimed at alleviating symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other health problems related to mental and physical trauma by focusing on the client’s perceptions of bodily sensations (or somatic experiences). It was developed by trauma therapist Peter A. Levine. Works are usually done in…