EMDR is an advanced and structured brain-body therapy that is used to treat single-event or more complex trauma. The patient is briefly encouraged to focus on a trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements). EMDR helps people process these memories properly, while reducing the negative emotions and beliefs associated with the trauma.
Psychodynamic (Insight-Oriented) Therapy helps clients explore the unconscious reasons behind feelings and behaviors as well as how early childhood experiences influence present behavior. Psychodynamic/Insight-Oriented therapies aim to help clients become aware of and experience vulnerable feelings which have often felt intolerable and pushed out of conscious awareness.
CBT helps people change self-defeating thoughts and beliefs in order to improve their feelings and behaviors. CBT focuses on problem-solving, building new coping skills, and creating healthier patterns of thinking.
Mindfulness Therapy encourages a kind and non-judgmental attitude towards oneself in order to gently notice what is happening in the here and now. In this way, mindfulness helps people deepen their understanding of themselves and allows them to learn to fully accept their experiences and reactions to life. Many mindfulness techniques are taught including meditation, breathwork, and ways to challenge our cognitive distortions.
Despite the name, IFS is not family therapy. Instead, it is a form of individual talk therapy that identifies various parts of ourselves that function like sub-personalities — including younger parts, wounded parts, and protective parts. IFS works to heal these parts to allow them to work together and create a sense of inner balance and harmony. This work can help with depression, anxiety, trauma, phobias and physical pain.
Sandtray Therapy is a powerful therapeutic technique for children and adults that involves a sandbox, called a sandtray, and a large collection of figurines. Clients arrange the figurines in the sandtray, recreating their inner world and bringing subconscious conflicts to consciousness. It is often said that sandplay therapy provides a “free and protected space” for exploration and healing.
Unergi Body Psychotherapy is based on the belief that emotions and memories are stored in our physical selves and that our bodies often hold truths our hearts and minds may not be ready to acknowledge yet. The root causes of symptoms and illnesses are often early experiences that have long been locked away from our consciousness. These unexpressed feelings can create energy blockages. These can manifest as emotional imbalances (such as depression, anxiety or relationship issues) or in the form of physical imbalances (such as chronic pain, muscle tension, addiction and disease). Unergi, with its healing touch and talk, invites clients into a dialogue between the body and the mind to access buried emotions and memories. Through listening to our bodies, old wounds heal and new insights, inner peace and deep joy often emerge.
Energy Healing is a holistic practice that involves channeling healing energy into a patient to restore balance and improve health. The goal is to stimulate the body’s ability to heal itself by removing blockages.
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