Experiential therapy
refers to modalities that enable a person to re-experience and view
past and present relationships from a different perspective. It also
helps people experience new feelings…to move out of one’s
head into a fuller experience with new clarity.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnosis is simply a relaxed but focused state of mind (trance) in which
a person is better able to integrate positive suggestion. Trance is
a natural state that we go in and out of several times a day.
Hypnotherapy combines hypnosis with therapy approaches involving memory
work and active expression of emotions. The ability to re-experience
events with a new perspective is key to the deep healing that can happen
with hypnotherapy.
Hypnotherapy is very different from stage hypnosis that is used for
entertainment. In hypnotherapy, the client remembers everything and
is always in control. In fact, the process helps clients gain more control
over subconscious motivations for unhealthy patterns.
Breathwork
Practices involving various forms of controlled breathing have been
used in healing for thousands of years. Breathwork is a technique which
helps a person access non-ordinary states of consciousness and release
negative energy attached to past issues.
People come in for breathwork to release bottled up emotions and memories
and to help move through blocks or fears. Breathwork is a good
way to take healing and growth to the deeper levels that talk therapy
cannot reach. It is a good technique for clearing and refocusing the
mind.
Psychodrama
The healing of emotional pain and trauma is most complete when the body
is involved because much of our trauma memory is stored in the body
rather than the brain. Psychodrama employs the use of role play and
non-ordinary states of consciousness in a group setting where the emotional
dynamics of relationships and past pain can be re-experienced and transformed.
This is a powerful therapy modality and is the cornerstone of our Weekend
Intensive Programs.
