Email Keri - kerimurray@sotropa.com
While modalities like CBT, Mindfulness, DBT, ACT, EFFT, Somatic, MI, IFS, EMDR and Family Systems Therapies can be useful, Narrative Therapy has provided a preferred posture when responding to a wide range of problems in our lives. It is also helpful to pay close attention to how the nervous system responds, and how healing happens when we can help our system process effects of past and present.
It is a respectful and non-blaming approach which centers people as the experts in their own lives. It views problems as separate from people and assumes people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives. It is always considering how power and meaning are constructed and enacted overtly, and sometimes in disguise. Through this lens, problems and potential next steps can be investigated and enacted in preferred ways.
IFS is also a non-pathologizing approach that conceives of every person as having a system of parts (some protective, some wounded), as well as a core Self who is capable of stepping into life more fully with confidence, calm, compassion, courage, creativity, clarity, curiosity, and connectedness.
It is a guided adaptive approach that enables people’s nervous systems to self-heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that result from disturbing life experiences.
The spirit of MI is about a partnership and acceptance of a person’s unique perspectives, experiences, strengths and discernments. It is a deeply respectful approach that recognizes ambivalence is normal. It is a way of having a conversation about change that helps a person more confidently decide for themselves the best approach forward.
Email Keri - kerimurray@sotropa.com