Integrative Counseling
Now accepting Medicaid and Blue Cross Blue Shield of VT
Life often holds suffering: stress, grief, transitions and adjustments, insecurity and pain.
Helping you to experience, hold, build resiliency and move through this suffering to a life of increased joy and fulfillment is the work of counseling.
Integrative Counseling affirms the unique nature and inherent value of every person. It is a unifying approach that responds to your health on the mental, physical and spiritual level. The goal of my practice is to help reduce suffering and increase your capacity for joy, resiliency and life fulfillment. I individualize my approach based on your needs, including techniques from Existential, narrative, cognitive-behavioral, and somatic psychotherapy.
The term "integrative" has a number of meanings. It is an approach that brings together our affective (feeling), cognitive (thinking), behavioral and physiological (moving/somatic body), with an awareness of the social, environmental and transpersonal (spiritual) systems we dwell within.
Through integration we gain permission to face each moment as wide open, without the haunt of past experiences or guard of pre-formed opinion, attitude, or expectation.
Integrative Counseling also refers to the process of integrating the Self: taking disowned, unaware, or unresolved parts and welcoming them as part of a cohesive personality...reducing the use of habits that inhibit spontaneity, limit flexibility and engaging the world with full contact.
It is the process of making whole.
Integration occurs within a perspective of human development in which each phase of life presents different developmental needs, sensitivities, crises, and opportunities for new learning. To this end, I utilize the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda to honor the effect that life cycles, seasonal changes, daily routines and elemental (doshic) qualities might lead to balance or imbalance.
Theoretical foundation:
Integrative Counseling takes into account many views of human functioning; client-centered, narrative, systems, somatic, flow and transpersonal psychology are all considered within this dynamic perspective.
My aim as an integrative counselor, is to foster a positive, strong and compassionate relationship that supports your whole being: body, mind, spirit and soul and helps guide you to health and happiness.
I have experience working with adults and adolescents on a variety of issues, including:
Communication and relationship concerns
Life transitions/adjustments
Depression/Anxiety
Dealing with loss/grief
Trauma
Addictive behaviors
Stress
Being “stuck”
Boundaries and burn-out
