The word holistic has been used to describe health care
practices that include acupuncture, massage therapy, Reiki,
naturopathy, and homeopathy. These practices attempt to
bring harmony to the physical, energetic, and/or
nutritional states of individuals.
Holistic Psychotherapy also seeks to bring balance between
these systems. However, as with all psychotherapy, its
primary focus is the treatment of psychological and
emotional pain that manifests in depression, anxiety,
trauma and related disorders. It is the way in which
holistic psychotherapy treats these disorders that marks
its departure from conventional psychotherapy and denotes
its singular effectiveness.
Generally speaking traditional psychotherapy focuses on
problematic thoughts and behavior, interprets the
underlining meaning of these thoughts and behavior, and
then provides solutions that are practiced by clients and
adjusted as circumstances warrant.
Unlike traditional psychotherapy, Holistic Psychotherapy
optimally fosters growth and healing by noting the
synergistic relationship between all the ways we experience
ourselves and the world—thinking, feeling, doing, and
sensing. Holistic practitioners then channel this
knowledge through methods that support the healthy
interaction between the processes of the thinking mind, the
feeling body, and the emotionally enfused spirit to bring
growth and healing.
Holistic Psychotherapy engages methods that encourage us to
talk, feel, act and sense in ways that make our experiences
manageable, safe, and empowering. Holistic Psychotherapy
helps us make sense out of anxious and depressed states,
manage overpowering feelings, bring solutions to our
problems, and teaches us how to effectively plan for our
future.
Holistic Psychotherapy recognizes, for instance, that
depression is a symptom. Depression might feel like the
problem but it is really the messenger that tells us we are
suffering an imbalance somewhere in self. Depression is
the red light that signals us to stop. Just as you would
not continue driving a car with the engine light blinking
without risking breakdown so ignoring depression risks a
physical and emotional breakdown.
Holistic Psychotherapy is the equivalent of preventive
medicine. A holistic practitioner will assess what area or
areas of self are causing distress--the mind, the body, or
the emotions--and how each area is effecting the other. A
holistic psychotherapist has state of the art tools and
methods honed by years of practice and ongoing training to
help individuals, couples, and families identify the source
of depressed and anxious experiences while helping to
alleviate them, and then provides guidance to develop
preventive skills to protect against reoccurrence.
Holistic Psychotherapy is not eclectic psychotherapy or a
bag of techniques learned once in a workshop. It is a
conscious, skillful, organic blending of eastern methods of
healing with western healing psychotherapies that safely
support you to engage all your ways of
experiencing—thinking, feeling, sensing,
doing—so that you relate to yourself with
understanding, respect, appreciation, and joy.
Holistic Psychotherapy recognizes that you have all the
answers and its function is to help you access those
answers with competence, responsible action, and a felt
sensation of healthy control.
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Ms Desert is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in
Baltimore, MD with a holistic private practice and
specializes in the treatment of depression, anxiety, and
trauma. For more information please visit her web site at
http://www.singular-pathways.com or email in confidence at
http://www.singularpathways@msn.com
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