Therapeutic approach
Experiential therapy is a form of counseling that offers hands on experiences to help clients engage with their parts of self to better understand their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Through these structured activities clients are focused on self-exploration rather than just talking about the issues they are seeking therapeutic help for.
Traditional talk therapy can take years to bring relief because it focuses on telling your story rather than interacting with it. Talk therapy can yield a great sense of understanding the problem while bringing about little change with the problem. The interaction or action component of experiential therapy adds perspective and introspection into the “why” behind what is happening and provides opportunity for corrective actions. Many clients seek counseling intensives because they can get a lot of deep, personal work done in a short amount of time.
Experiential modalities help you see how past unresolved experiences are showing up in today’s relational patterns. With this newfound attunement, you can focus healing on the areas that bring lasting change.
Experiential therapy comes in many forms and with many different options ensuring there is something for everyone. From music and art to animals and connection with the wilderness, together we will find your best fit that helps you engage with your healing in a kind and gentle way.
Want more information on why experiential therapy? read this article.
Modalities and methods
Unlike traditional western medicine, counseling is not a one-therapy-method-fits-all kind of treatment. Each person is unique, and thus a therapeutic technique or method that works for one person may not work for another. This is why we offer a multitude of therapeutic modalities. Together we will determine what specific therapeutic modalities are going to work best for you.
The role of the counselor is as cheerleaders for the unfolding of the soul rather than as experts in identifying pathology, in interpretation, or in problem solving.
– Rob Fisher, Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples
Clinical modalities
Animal interactions with horses, cats, and dogs can be added to most of the modalities we utilize
“There’s no such thing as resistance, only lack of warm-up.”
– Jacob L. Moreno, creator of Psychodrama